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The rest of the story
June 3, 2008Photographer Torin Halsey and I enjoy exploring old buildings and interesting sights when we're out roaming the countryside.
Our adventuring has led to many interesting stories, such as a couple we published in January about the crumbling old schools throughout our region.
Torin's photos truly told the story of the old schools better than my words could. In one, an old piano sat expanded and exposed to the elements. Roofs were caved in. Gym floors buckled.
Torin got one shot of the old stove in what, we assume, was once the kitchen at the old school in Elbert, which is located in Throckmorton County.
It's a photo neither of us will ever forget.
As Torin readied his shot of the stove, we both heard wood crack.
And down Torin sank as the floor caved in.
Luckily, the ground was only about a foot below, or else we would have had a much more interesting story to tell.
Of course, I made Torin take an "after" shot of the stove . . . and the personal mark in the floor that he made on the old building.
It's a photo that still makes me chuckle.
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