tom hyde – after the fall

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Tom Hyde – After The Fall

Tom Hyde After The Fall As the moist air rolls off the Pacific Ocean to first encounter the North American land mass it slams headlong into the Olympic Mountains, rises up, cools off, and dumps. Of…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2011/09/tom-hyde-after-the-fall/

Here it is all about timber, and paper, and fishing. Product. Extraction and subjugation in the industrial landscape of a forest. The towns here were built around the mills and the salmon canneries in another century. Aberdeen lies downstream along the Chehalis River and like many such American towns based on resource extraction and production, those towns that fueled expansion and built a nation, its best days are seemingly long behind it.