Alliance Nebraska ©1983 I was in Alliance in the mid 80s to photograph railroad cars for a San Francisco based corporation. My client and I were met by the railroad people at the local airport and were driven to the town’s small hotel. The next morning, at our breakfast meeting, we planned the days’ photography, only to find that we didn’t have transportation to the Railroad Yard. Alliance was a very small town and didn’t have car rentals. Our waitress, over hearing our situation, offered her car. Her boyfriend worked at the Railway Yard and could return the car to her.In the number of years I spent traveling as a commercial photographer, that waitress’s trust and kindness was never forgotten. It came naturally to her and others in Alliance. I found Mid Westerners to be kind, honest, trusting and always ready to lend a hand.The Haystack photo was taken during a break in the commercial assignment.
I took a Nikon and some Kodachrome and walked out a long stretch of
railroad track keeping the haystack in view. The haystack photo is my
reminder of the kind, hard-working people of that little Nebraska town. |