Thank you for your comment. My goodness, you have some wonderful material for your photobook. So many places with haunting beauty, and so much that has been overlooked--but you're seeing it. If there's a lot more fracking, if water tables are affected, the whole region may disappear... And yes, so much architectural beauty in Pottsville. Where do they shop? On-line but also at the mall, where some good stores hang on.
Very enjoyable reading, thanks! I'm a photographer based in Brooklyn but working on a photobook project about anthracite coal mining towns in PA. And Pottsville is far away my favorite and home away from home when I visit to make more work.
I'm very interested in history, too, and this fills in a few blanks for me. Like you said, much of Pottsville would be prime real estate in NYC. I can't think of any other town (except maybe Hamburg, but that's not a coal town) with more beautiful architecture.
It does make me sad to see such beautiful storefronts in prime locations being empty year after year. Makes you wonder if there's any business that could survive in them. Malls are dying, too, so it makes you wonder where people actually shop. Online I guess.
Thank you for your comment. My goodness, you have some wonderful material for your photobook. So many places with haunting beauty, and so much that has been overlooked--but you're seeing it. If there's a lot more fracking, if water tables are affected, the whole region may disappear... And yes, so much architectural beauty in Pottsville. Where do they shop? On-line but also at the mall, where some good stores hang on.
Very enjoyable reading, thanks! I'm a photographer based in Brooklyn but working on a photobook project about anthracite coal mining towns in PA. And Pottsville is far away my favorite and home away from home when I visit to make more work.
I'm very interested in history, too, and this fills in a few blanks for me. Like you said, much of Pottsville would be prime real estate in NYC. I can't think of any other town (except maybe Hamburg, but that's not a coal town) with more beautiful architecture.
It does make me sad to see such beautiful storefronts in prime locations being empty year after year. Makes you wonder if there's any business that could survive in them. Malls are dying, too, so it makes you wonder where people actually shop. Online I guess.