John Vachon caption: The Blizzard family, Kempton, West Virginia, May 1939, John Vachon. (*Note: the photo was taken in Kempton, Maryland, not West Virginia). "I agree that we were a poor family, but I don't see how we could've been that bad off. We were living on a small farm … [Read more...]

Mona Lisa of the Plains I saw this photograph on the Library of Congress website in early December 2007. I must have stared at it for five minutes. I thought it was one of the most beautiful pictures I had ever seen. I still do. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the … [Read more...]