Lower Fox Creek School | Lonely presence Windswept hill Prairie vastness |
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his structure is a quintessential example of the simple one-room school house from the American west. Built in the early 1880's a few miles north of Strong City in the Flint Hills of Kansas, remarkably it was used as a school up until 1930. The image was made from my truck while traveling north on SR-57 / 177 towards Council Grove. Inevitably some of the finest light seems to occur when I am behind the drivers wheel.
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” - John Hope Franklin
