Ever been to a Ghost Town?

[dragonrider]

Dragonrider- you write beautifully.

Thank you. I can have my moments. Although I have to admit that I stole the phrase "detritus of lives let go" from an article in a recent National Geographic. The rest is all mine, but that phrase stuck with me, and I had to use it. The article is about abandoned towns in the northern Plains. It is very well written, and does a good job of capturing the sorrow of these emptied places. It is one of the things that got me thinking about ghost towns.

The other thing that got me thinking about abandoned and dying places was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I saw No Country for Old Men, and decided I should read a book by Cormac McCarthy. It's very depressing and a hard one to recommend, but it is probably going to be counted among the great books. It's more about how the human spirit deals with hopelessness than about ghost towns per se, but it is set in a dying world, and the descriptions of the doomed and wasted places are very moving. The difference I suppose is that when a ghost town is abandoned, nature comes to take it back, but in this book, nature is dying too.

I've had doomed places on my mind lately.

Ghost Town by the Specials is a track worth listening to it can be dowloaded from various sites if anybody is interested.

Ghost Town is a great song and one that takes me back to my youth. Thanks for remiding me of it. If I knew how to properly insert a YouTube video I would, but here is the link:

YouTube - The Specials - Ghost Town

The sadness of a ghost town penetrates everything. The memories that are left behind are always sad.. the happy ones are rarely left behind, but the sad ones... they permeate more than just our 4 dimensions of space-time. It is this residual low-frequency energy that draws me the most. I dont know if I feed on it, or what, but it is compelling all the same.

Grazi, I knew you would have something interesting to say about ghost towns...

dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on 12-27-2007. Ever been to a Ghost Town? Itâ??s always an eerie and poignant experience, walking through the ruins of a once vibrant community. Everywhere you look, you can see the evidence of life, but now all is in decay. A lost place, littered with the detritus of lives let go. The color leached away, leaving only ashen shades of gray. Some Ghost Towns are the result of sudden disaster in which everyone abandoned the community suddenly, right in the middle of doing something --- tables set with plates and silverware and meals Rating: 5