I found this old travel brochure of a State Park near Ithaca, N.Y. at a vintage store in Woodstock.
I loved the black and white photographs of nature inside.
It reminded me of my own childhood exploration of the Starved Rock State Park on the Illinois River outside of Peru, Illinois.
Every state park seems to have places named after the Devil, and this is a picture of Lucifer Falls in Enfield.
I vaguely recall that Starved Rock had a Devil's Playground, or something like that. It always felt very Nathaniel Hawthorne to me in regards to this view of the satanic nature of the nature surrounding us (and within us)!
This is a place called The Old Mill, like the famous Disney short cartoon of the same name.
Here is a bridge over "The Narrows". Beautiful.
I hope we get to visit there one day and compare then to now. Hopefully not much has changed. In the meantime we can enjoy the place vicariously through these vernacular images.
william
Do you remember that we were at Starved Rock the weekend that Kennedy was assassinated? I wrote about it when the 50th anniversary was all over the news.
Joan Chandler
Posted by: Joan Chandler | January 07, 2014 at 10:07 AM
I love visiting Starved Rock - though as they say, "Ithaca is Gorges". I've always been meaning to head to Starved Rock in winter to see the falls frozen over and catch sight of eagles nesting - but I'll admit the cold has kept me away.
Posted by: Cat | March 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM