An Abandoned Factory’s Clinton Connection

Michael Borek’s penchant for old and quiet places took him to a lace factory where generations of immigrants toiled, including Hillary Rodham Clinton’s grandfather.

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Michael Borek talks for a living, as a freelance Czech interpreter for the United States government. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when he isn’t working, he relishes silence. He has spent years searching for and photographing “old and dilapidated things,” like abandoned industrial sites.