This is the story of my friend Andy the Great, a true American hero and veteran of WW2, and the small miracle that occurred right before he passed. I served as his volunteer genealogist for the 2.5 years preceding his death, and our love for genealogy helped foster the most

RT @thequeenofrust: Since today is International Day of Happiness (and everything in this reel makes me very happy), I thought I'd introduc….

RT @thequeenofrust: Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore 🐦‍⬛

RT @thequeenofrust: Flying my colors 🇺🇸

Photographing the belongings left behind is a study all its own — a quiet examination of the material world we build around ourselves, and the truth that none of it follows us when we go. I call these close-up captures my Proof of Life shots. They’re fragments of someone’s every

RT @thequeenofrust: The historic Ghost Town of Chesterfield, Idaho, established 1880. The roads, houses, and hills were blanketed in thick….

When the boom ended in 1910, the population began to decline. A devastating flood in 1913 and a fire in 1923 further crippled the town. By 1950, the town was nearly abandoned. The last graduating class was in 1948. Everything was left behind, the doors were locked, and it

Inside a three-story high school built in 1906 during Goldfield, Nevada’s gold boom. When a devastating fire swept through the town in 1923–24, this school—built with fire-resistant materials—was one of the few buildings that survived. Here’s how it looks today.

Hi, I’m Laura. I’ve been on the road out west photographing ghost towns, cemeteries, abandoned mines, a WWII hangar, a haunted high school, a penitentiary, and even walked part of the Oregon Trail. I love sharing where I’ve been and what I’ve uncovered…. But I’m curious—what

I’d also like to know how this one got there.

Exploring ghost towns in the desert…be back soon.

Tucked away in the high desert of Nevada, this wooden giant once roared with the sounds of B-24 Liberators and the boots of airmen preparing for war. It’s one of the last remaining hangars from the Tonopah Army Air Field—constructed during World War II when this area became a

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How was your weekend?

Sunset tonight.

There’s something oddly life-giving about standing among headstones. A quiet nudge that time is fleeting, and love is what outlasts us. I’d be interested to know what language is inscribed in this headstone, found in The New Tonopah Cemetery in Tonopah, Nevada.

Adventures in the desert—different boots, different jeans, same genes as the last post. In Tonopah, Nevada, there’s a place where rusted metal rises from the earth like graffiti covered tombstones—The International Car Forest of the Last Church, an open air art installation by

Have you visited Arlington and seen this in person? It’s so worth the trip!.

Tag your Kansas friends in the comments, I’m curious if anyone knows what happened to cause the walls to collapse?

Here’s some photos of what it looked when it was first built, in 1949, and March 2025.