Finding beauty, decay, and unanswered questions in Yorklyn’s ruins I visited Yorklyn De, where there are ruins and abandoned building galore to explore. Here is a place where the bones of industry still jut out from the earth like ruins of some long lost civilization. Hidden in the hills along Red Clay Creek, the village was once a thriving mill town, loud with machinery, smoke, and the constant churn of industry. Now it feels suspended somewhere between history and haunting. Brick walls crumbling and trees growing where they don’t belong. Rusted gears sleep in rooms and in fields. Empty windows
Tag: Landscapes
Gardens, history, and the stillness left behind I recently spent time exploring the DuPont estates in Wilmington, Delaware; Winterthur, Hagley, and Nemours. In a way, Hagley started all of this for me. I visited it last year while traveling through on my way to Tennessee. I tend to leave room in my trips for unexpected stops, the kinds of places you stumble across without planning to. Hagley was one of those places. What I expected to be a quick visit turned into hours wandering through buildings, gardens, workshops, and the beginnings of the DuPont story. Before the estates and elegance,