Midwest in Photos: Eastside Lawn Party

“Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do. Men assign value to brick and mortar, link their identities to mortgages paid on time. On frigid winter nights, young mothers walk their fussy babies from room to room, learning where the rooms catch drafts and where the floorboars creak. In the warm damp of summer, fathers sit on porches, sometimes worried and often tired but comforted by the fact that a roof is up there providing shelter. Children smudge up walls with dirty handprints, find nooks to hide their particular treasure, or hide themselves if need be. We live and die in houses, dream of getting back to houses, taking great care in considering who will inherit the houses when we’re gone.” –Angela Flournoy, The Turner House.

Eastside Lawn Party

Photo by: Alec Josaitis

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