“once this town was something- then it just went and dried up,” the man said to me.
He was sitting in his pickup truck, his wife beside him, talking to me, as I stood camera in hand. I’d been taking pictures of the restored gas station (pictured below) when he pulled up and rolled his window down and started talking.
“We seen you coming into town,” he said. By we he meant his wife who sat beside him smiling.
“Did you see the bridge?” He asked.
I said that I had. And I’d stopped at The Interpretive Center.
“They’re hoping that does something, brings people here. They’re still doing some kinda work to it, I think. They’re trying to do something.”
As he said these words, I tried to see this place, to picture what it must of looked like back in it’s heyday.
January 12, 2011 at 3:10 pm |
Thank you for coming to Grand Junction. I am 45 years old and have lived my life in this town. I am a optomist and I love this town. I am on the Fire and Rescue Dept. Also on the City Council and President of Grand Junction Horizons a group formed through the Iowa State Extention Office to help relieve Poverty in town. Our goal on Horizons is to make Grand Junction a Great place to live. Our slogan is a Town on the Right Track becouse of the Railroad. Through Horizons we have started a anual town clean up day and a anual town celebration day. We also started a tutoring program for the kids at the Library. We Also with help from the fire Dept give away food boxes every Christmas to the needy and 90 were given out this year. Our Fire Dept has a anual Easter egg Hunt, A Hollowing Safe House for the kids after trick or treating and Christmas at the Fire Station. Oul Lions club whom I am a member also does many Coummunity things and our club has grown. Some would call Grand Junction a Dried up town I would call it a town discovering a new path to be on. Thank you for your time
Pierre Kellogg