Since the Middle Ages thousands of towns, villages, and other human communities in Great Britain have been abandoned. Some places have been abandoned at a single point in time, while others have been gradually depopulated until there was no-. A farmhouse and a military tent on Mynydd Epynt. Clicking on a picture will usually give you an enlarged version of it. But in addition it is surprising how often the places we will consider have inspired poems before, during, and after their abandonment.

Disappearing history and the natural world reclaiming it. Laurel Run, Pennsylvania; Fire beneath the Mountain. A fire smolders in an abandoned coal mine deep underground. Gases seep to the surface through fissures in the earth. A blue-collar Pennsylvania town vaporizes, chased away by the blaze. But this is not Centralia, where subterranean seams of anthracite have been burning since 1962.

Saturday, May 2, 2015. Hidden in plain view towering over Interstates 84 in Farmington, CT sits a multi-stack highway interchange never used by the public. If you thought CT Route 11. As of 2015 there are no plans to open the interchange that has sit dormant for more then 20 years although one of the ramps has since opened. Photos by Michael Parisi and Michael Ackler of AbandonedCT.

Thursday, December 31, 2009. Another year has come to an end for Abandoned Dreams. Thrown in randomly are tidbits from my memory, either about the locations or specific events that happened while we were there.