“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned”*…
Presidents Park, near Williamsburg, Virginia
Birmingham-based photographer Leland Kent travelled the South to document “abandoned places”…
Six Flags Amusement Park, near New Orleans
Jax Lanes, Jacksonville, Florida
See more of these three sites and many others, all with explanatory history, at Abandoned Southeast.
* Emile Durkheim
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As we forget to remember, we might send acerbic birthday greetings to Alexander Humphreys Woollcott; e was born on this date in 1887. A critic and commentator for The New Yorker (and a member of the Algonquin Round Table), he is probably more easily recognized these days as the inspiration for “Sheridan Whiteside,” the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the Otto Preminger film Laura . (Woollcott himself was convinced that he was the inspiration for his friend Rex Stout’s brilliant, eccentric detective Nero Wolfe; but Stout denied it.)
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