Lost Graves

I found myself in a forest filled with forgotten lives. Their final resting places were marked, not with names, but numbered stakes, unnoticed, until Bud Merritt stumbled upon them.  He found the first of six lost graveyards at what was once the largest mental...

Photo Wagon

John Coffer turned his back on modern times to wander America in a wagon pulled by oxen, stopping only to take portraits with his antique camera.  Coffer traveled at two and a half miles an hour for five years. 25 states. 10-thousand miles.  He crisscrossed...

A Selfless Man 

A surveyor from Valentine, Nebraska, was charting the land of the Rio Grande.  He stopped for lunch and took a nap.  When he awoke, poor people had gathered to eat his scraps.  That bothered Frank Ferree.  It bothered him so much he sold all his...

Homesteading Class

There’s a mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, the locals call “Misery Heights.”  The last cowboys left there in the 1930s.  It was too remote to raise horses, too cold to grow crops.  Just right to teach something about life.  Jack Snoble teaches a course in...

Photographer for Life

Milton Rogovin grew old watching his neighborhood grow up, sharing the yearbook of their lives.  He was still photographing them at age 100, surrounded by friends who were now taking his picture — the “forgotten ones,” who did not forget him. Share...

Home Plate Wedding

Some folks do not see limits, only opportunities.  Ed Lucas decided he wanted to broadcast baseball games, after watching the first nationally televised playoff. He ran outside to celebrate his decision.  The twelve year old fired a fastball to a boyfriend...