A new photo essay about small-town America,
“Empty places. Empty spaces”
by my good friend and amazing photojournalist Kent Kreigshauser,
(a former colleague from my days as a reporter for the Galesburg Register-Mail, where Kent continues to rock.)
This photo at right shows the former Wal-Mart, which sits gapingly empty right on the main drag (Henderson Street). The new Super Center is just a mile or so away, on the edge of town. This building has been empty for several years now.)
For my non-local readers: Galesburg was the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. If you own a Maytag appliance, it was more than likely built in Galesburg, before the town lost the major Maytag plant to Mexico several years back.
This photo essay gives a bleak but honest picture of what’s going on in a lot of Forgotonia (and the country in general).
Check out Kent’s photo essay here.
Tags: Illinois, KnoxCounty, local_news, national_news, pics, Rural People Read Too, rural_life
I am looking into a nationwide tour to benefit cancer research and St. Judes and need empty buildings to promote my events. I put on very exciting, safe, and fun mixed martial arts cage fights. If the wal-mart building in Galesburg could accomodate this it would be one incredible show!!!!