Memories, echoes and refractions.....
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Unpublished letter written January 28, 1998, by Lurene Helzer to Cornelia Ilie, Swedish professor, regarding my travels, and my political writings. I discuss a trip to Nevada and my adventures in ghost towns with friends, P.J. Adams and her friend Skip. We all had cameras in hand with 400 speed black & white film. This quote I wrote below describes part of our adventure:
“…Now, these towns are abandoned and completely empty. Half-crumbled banks and saloons, homes, roads. I took photos in a few of the old cabins. I found one that some modern visitors had occupied. They left an old, brittle newspaper in there, lying amid debris. It had a picture of Bill Clinton with a headline that said: PROPHET. Of course, this was marvelous, because at the moment I took the picture of that abandoned cabin with that paper on the floor, Clinton was struggling with his political survival. It was January 25, 1998, the day I was there….”.
