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DAVE VORLAND: It Occurs To Me — You Can’t Go Home Again

I photographed this dilapidated farmhouse (above) just south of Wellsburg, N.D., in August 1969. A shadow of what it once was, I had lived there as a child. Shortly after I took this picture, the new owner burned it to the ground. A neighbor who witnessed the fire told me “it died hard.” When I was in the eighth grade, …


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DAVE VORLAND: It Occurs To Me — A Proustian Moment

It’s been said “you can’t go home again.” Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel with that title. Ernest Hemingway often returned to places that had been important in his life, such as the spot in Italy where he had been wounded in World War I. But invariably, he arrived at the same conclusion. My favorite French author, Marcel Proust (his novel …