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Motivation and inspiration for creating After the Harvest
While looking up in hundreds of Southern Indiana towns during the course of shooting 2nd Stories, it didn’t take long form me to realize that the tallest structures in many locales were grain elevators and feed mills. Like most Hoosiers, I’d always taken their ubiquitous presence for granted. After all, just about any Indiana town of any size had at least one of them. But, it soon became obvious, as we traveled from place to place, that these looming towers were rapidly being abandoned—and were disappearing—at an alarming rate. I realized I had to capture these once-vital economic enterprises on film, right now, before they fell down, burned down, or were purposely torn down.
Along the way, I learned a great deal about grain elevators—their design, how they were built, how they worked, how important they were to their communities, and why so many had gone out of business. Unexpectedly, I even found out about their impact on modern art and architecture. All this made for a fascinating visual story that reinforced the correctness of my desire to document this unsung aspect of Indiana’s heritage.
After the Harvest - $22.00
8.5" x 10" trade paperback, 144 pages, ISBN 978-0-9745186-3-3
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