Perhaps the sadness of finding children's toys in abandoned locations mirrors our worst failure, our inability to protect them from how brutal reality can be.


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What happens when news stories about abandoned sites are published without fact checking? A bizarro tale of Seph Lawless, fraud, and a journalistic train wreck.


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Not all aspects of fear are bad, which is why in managed doses we seek it out.


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The focus wasn't just right, I made some other stupid mistake in the settings, the angle could have been better. I should have tried more, and worked harder.


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Photograph abandoned barns, farm, and farmhouses in some of the most scenic locations rural Pennsylvania and New Jersey have to offer with Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America!


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The new Abandoned America Leap of Faith Workshop for 2015 is unveiled!


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It's never just been about the history or preservation of these places, it's more about trying to figure out how to survive myself.


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Even the best efforts to research a site sometimes present inaccurate results - how does one deal with human error in historical writing?


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All the Abandoned America updates for June 2015!


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A congratulatory letter to the City of Philadelphia on the demolition of its last movie palace, the Boyd Theater


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An entire neighborhood left for dead: the newest gallery update on Abandoned America.


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Greystone Park Psychiatric Center's historic Kirkbride building needs your help!


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All the new stuff on Abandoned America for March 2015!
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Our reaction to ruins bears a strong tie to our processing of loss and grief, and how we turn to memories to cope with them.


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