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Dickens (not Charles)(but named for him)
When your itinerary for the day is to “drive around and look at stuff” and you’re traveling along a two-lane road and there’s a sign that says “Dickens” and run-down building down a dirt road, there’s really only one choice, isn’t there?
The place is unincorporated, and so small that there’s no population listed. I’d put it at fewer than 10. According to our friend Wikipedia, the place was founded in the 1880s when the railroad went through. Wikipedia also notes the place was named for Charles Dickens, though it offers no supporting evidence. But let’s think about long-ago students in this school reading Bleak House…
Dickens, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
Window Seat
This chair, set tight against a window-without-glass, seems to represent a someone’s sad story. I’ll let you fill in what you think is going on – I have my own ideas…
Maywood, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
Sweet corn
“Did you bring back any corn?” – frequent question you get right after a late-summer visit to Nebraska.
Exeter, Nebraska
photographed 8.29.2018
Ghost Slide
The difference between this abandoned school and all the other ones I’ve shot is that the Patient Spouse attended two years of elementary school here, which made the desolation a little more depressing.
But those two slides, barely holding their own against the onslaughts of time and weeds, turn a sad place into a creepy one…
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
Salt is very popular
Evidently, salt is a very popular item in this part of Nebraska – it accounts for 25% of the words in the signs on this market.
On the other hand, maybe the proprietors over-estimated the need for salt: the place is out of business…
Maywood, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
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