Back in the early 90s I worked for the Stevens Point Parks Department, keeping downtown Main Street and the Square clean. I found a lot of weird stuff working there (you wouldn’t believe how many bullets I found), but photos are always something I feel the need to hold on to. I found this picture … Continued
I found this in a fly fishing coffee table book purchased at the Cox Creative Center (which happens to be the last remaining used-book store in my hometown). There was also a letter, dated 1/28/90, sent along w/ this picture of the “master angler” attached.
He looks very content with where he is in life right now; it’s wonderful to see that. I also love that every thing seems to be one shade of blue or another… his shirt, pants, the water, his hat, the sky.
I was having coffee with some friends of mine and a homeless man gave us gems he’d found in dumpsters. My friends got a parasol, a zippo lighter, a flash, and a pack of batteries. I got a disposable camera full of many many almost identical shots of this man doing various things in his … Continued
I think my boyfriend might have found this one for me, but neither of us can remember for sure. It’s charming, though.
I found this piece of paper in the maintenance closet of the NCSU Carmichael gym, folded and stapled to create a pouch.
The colors in this old Polaroid are surprisingly vivid, and if it wasn’t falling apart at the edges I’d put it on my fridge.
Recently I acquired several slide trays which contained photos from the 1960s and early 1970s. This one is simply captioned “March 1970.” As far as I could tell, there were no more photos pertaining to the gun club, but there were a lot of vacation photos, so maybe these folks just stopped because they wanted … Continued