Dina Kantor Photographs the Demise of Treece, Kansas

[MerryBlooms]

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Treece, Kansas, was a thriving mining town during the First and Second World Wars. It’s now been almost entirely abandoned due to major pollution. For the past two years, the photographer Dina Kantor has been photographing the decline of Treece, accompanied by her sister, Shira, a writer.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/dina-kantor-photographs-the-demise-of-treece-kansas.html

[pipoman]

1. I've been there several times..

the landscape looks like another planet. The area kids, while other kids are making posters in school about tornado awareness, fire prevention, and pollution, are making posters about not drinking the local water. There is a feeling of death and toxicity even before I knew the story of the mining pollution. I admired the unusual landscape until I found out the cause. It is an embarrassment to humanity, the irreversible damage done there.

[happyslug]

2. The EPA bought out its Larger sister city, Pichner in 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/us/14kansas.html?_r=1

Picher officially was dissolved on 0-1-2009, but had been a subject to buy ots from 1996 onward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma

Picher is right across the Kansas-Oklahoma border from Treece, The two towns are less then one mile apart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treece,_Kansas