Comments on: Downtown Neosho Falls http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/2009/05/07/downtown-neosho-falls/ Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Janet Fish http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/2009/05/07/downtown-neosho-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-7134 Janet Fish Fri, 08 May 2009 01:53:15 +0000 http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/?p=11060#comment-7134 There was a thing on tv recently about nature reclaiming Chernoble. It's a big city that was abandoned after the nuclear meltdown. It happens faster than we imagine it will. I know a lady in the South who believes that it happens so fast because when humans abandon the houses and other buildings, the spirit of the place leaves with them. I get what she is saying. When we were looking to move, we looked at houses where we could often feel the former occupants somehow. The houses aren't abandoned, they're only passing from one hand to the next. But when you go into an abandoned place, there's an empty feeling, almost painful, that grabs your gut. Like there's a void that needs filling. There was a thing on tv recently about nature reclaiming Chernoble. It’s a big city that was abandoned after the nuclear meltdown. It happens faster than we imagine it will.

I know a lady in the South who believes that it happens so fast because when humans abandon the houses and other buildings, the spirit of the place leaves with them. I get what she is saying.

When we were looking to move, we looked at houses where we could often feel the former occupants somehow. The houses aren’t abandoned, they’re only passing from one hand to the next.

But when you go into an abandoned place, there’s an empty feeling, almost painful, that grabs your gut. Like there’s a void that needs filling.

]]> By: Expat From Hell http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/2009/05/07/downtown-neosho-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-7132 Expat From Hell Thu, 07 May 2009 23:02:19 +0000 http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/?p=11060#comment-7132 It's like you are capturing a battle with these pictures. All I can think and feel is from the human perspective. How sad that these towns, vibrant and alive many years ago, have come to this. My grandmother was born in Scammon, KS, in 1896. When my parents returned to visit the old homestead, the town was gone. Just a crossroads now (near Pittsburg in Cherokee Co.) Such a home of ghosts you have in that fair state. EFH It’s like you are capturing a battle with these pictures. All I can think and feel is from the human perspective. How sad that these towns, vibrant and alive many years ago, have come to this.
My grandmother was born in Scammon, KS, in 1896. When my parents returned to visit the old homestead, the town was gone. Just a crossroads now (near Pittsburg in Cherokee Co.) Such a home of ghosts you have in that fair state.

EFH

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