When I finished my post yesterday with Dwight’s pictures, I realized that all of the shots I have put up are of hunting. And obviously this is a hunting site. However Dwight took pictures of almost everything in this area for 50 years. So he has quite a collection of neat, small town images.

Therefore I thought I would do a follow up post to yesterday’s with some of his other work. The shots shown here today now hang in our local museum.

The top shot is of Dwight’s sister, and it is the very first picture Dwight ever took. He was very proud of it, and it hung in his den all of his life. The shot of the church is very rare. It is of the Black Swamp Methodist Church that was built in the early 1800s and burned down in the 1960s. It was used by General Sherman as a base in 1865 when his army marched to the sea. The cemetery that was next to the church is still there, and that is where my dad is buried.

And I just loved the other pictures. The one shot shows some passengers boarding a train right here in Garnett before they moved the depot. There is not much left of our town today, but at one time it was a very busy place with lots of people and goods coming and going by way of the trains. That is the old Garnett depot in the shot next to the passengers, and I think they moved it in the early 70s.

The other shot show Dwight’s breaking news coverage of a house fire in 1970… just check out that old firetruck! And the old store picture is of the Richardson and Chisolm General store built in 1886. Our family owned it here in Garnett for many years until we had to tear it down do to the fire liability – because it was made entirely of fat lighter! And I don’t believe that old firetruck would have been able to put it out. LOL

Please check out my other posts on Dwight and his photography if you haven’t already!

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