Is that the American Dream gone wrong?
No, Rob, I'd say it's more like a childhood surrendering to maturity. Those pumps are in Clouterville, Louisiana, which was a cotton town with a cotton mill in the thirties. It's mostly gone now. I was through there once or twice in earlier years. Here's a shot from 2002. You can see the pumps in this one too. When I came back almost exactly four years later the buildings on both sides of the pumps were gone.
Thanks Todd. I'm old enough to have watched this kind of thing all over the U.S. I've concentrated on it on the western prairies, but the deep south has a lot of stories like this too.
