264 Comments for New York City Farm Colony

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Mature Trees
Gotta love it
Beautiful event
Yer so awesome
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Is IT
Feel stillness
Is Fine
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Y E S
Is awesome and beautiful and clever and delicious snow
Thanks
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This was also during the time that Eugenics had become very popular. Many institutions were being created to improve society and some weren't so nice. The Fernauld school outside Boston is one where they used the boys mostly just delinquents whom had been "diagnosed" using Eugenics as morons etc. They had a farm and shoe factory that they forced the boys to work in and made money off them from it. There is a book "The State Boys Rebellion" Michael D'Antonio Someone who recognized my story as familiar recommended it. In it they describe the abuse these boys endured and some of it is exactly the same as what I endured down to the exact same phrasing of abuse and the description of the tortures they would inflict and terrorize them with to include ECT.
I imagine if I could ever get past the triggering of my PTSD as I tell my story it would look a lot like that book. There were many such institutions across the nation where working was used as excuse to institutionalize people to supply labor.
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Made to last
Still there
Beautiful
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Truly beautiful EVERY stone a thought with work
Thanks, - is lovely - indeed
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That red around the windows really makes them pop and I think makes it seem under repair.
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I bet that felt really cool and modern when it was first in use.
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I would hope Motts goes with more than one person!!

LOL!!!
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Somehow this evoked a thought of 1920's Chicago. I imagined a bunch of regular working folk using this as a speakeasy.
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I really THOUGHT it was infrared at first! I can FEEL the silence looking at this shot!
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That stonework is fine as long as it has the internal bracing. Once that is gone freezing defrosting will tear it down over time.
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Ohhh - you are back!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Mr.Motts; for all the information and the historical pictures too.......
- it is good om Google Earth also.
So happy and pleased.
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Grey Gardens popped into my head as soon as it came into view.
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Gorgeous. Just gorgeous!