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Annie Cashman's avatar

Re the pic with the little girl: I can remember when i felt that way about Santa<3

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Diana Borden's avatar

Thanks for the link to the portrait gallery, and to Documerica in the National Archives, about which I had never heard. This past summer, on a photo expedition to Niagara Falls, I stumbled across the Love Canal neighborhood, and a granite historical marker describing in detail the history of that environmental disaster, which started with an industrialist trying to divert the Niagara River for power and navigation to the Erie Canal, and to dry up Niagara Falls. Part of Love Canal is now capped and fenced off, still too risky to use; part is light industrial; and part is a neighborhood and Little League Baseball fields. The jarring juxtaposition, and remnants of forgotten history, reminded me of your descriptions of the urban “edgelands.”

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