Channing, Texas 12 March 2011
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About Me
- pitchertaker
- Central Massachusetts, United States
- I have been photographing for more than 50 years first working as supervisor for yearbook and college newspaper. Later I headed the photography department for the News Service at UTAustin. In 1979, I became a Dobie-Paisano Fellow and began to follow a career in freelance and doing my own personal work. My wife's career pulled us out of Texas for the east coast finally winding up in central Massachusetts. Now in my 79th year, I teach both digital and wet darkroom at a small liberal arts university in Worcester, MA. I shoot these cameras and formats: ----Note: -- I have given up on film. I now have only digital cameras -- the Canon 6D, and a Pentax 645D medium format digital.
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4 comments:
I enjoy this photograph. My wife's great-grand uncle built this building back in 1919.
Channing looks as thought it was once a thriving and busy community. Do you know for what purpose you wife's great-grand uncle built this building?
I'm sorry it has taken so long to respond. I love your photography but I have not been back to this blog. The building was built around 1919 and it was a grocery store on the main floor and a boarding house on the second floor. The family owned it until the early 1930s. At the time it was calling the Channing Hotel. I'm aware of a fire that destroyed many of the buildings on main street and the buildings were never rebuilt. I have a photograph of the main street back when the building was still used as a hotel and there are still a few residents of Channing that remember the time when the building was a grocery store.
Thanks for adding the history. As I drive through these places, I always wonder about the past lives that molded the buildings and the character of the towns.
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