Forgotten But Not Gone

Photos by Ron Hammond & poems by Judith Skillman, on CD

The photographer says, "These photographs were taken in and around my home town in central Illinois. Dawson's Drug Store in Eureka, Illinois is gone. So is the old dog that darted out of the vacant lot next to Susie's Restaurant and bit my ankle. The vacant lot is gone, too. So, in fact, is Susie's Restaurant. But those are details. These photographs are my memories of the Midwest...These photographs are my proof that the deep-rooty-common place is still there -- forgotten but not gone."