Streets of Silence

From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

I was in Luray, Virginia, this weekend for a meeting of the Shenandoah Chapter of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts.  After the meeting, I walked the streets and took pictures of some old and weary buildings.  

I've posted photos and poems before about abandoned places, but these weren't abandoned -- just closed up and quiet.
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By Emily Dickinson:

Great Streets of silence led away
To Neighborhoods of Pause –
Here was no Notice — no Dissent
No Universe – no laws –

By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night
The Bells at Distance called –
But Epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.

For additional posts on abandoned places, click HERE, HERE, and HERE.

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Also of interest...

While I was in the area, I also drove up to New Market to visit the Virginia Museum of the Civil War.  It was a small but informative museum -- and it had a wonderful stained glass window.

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Below:  I'm also a fan of old/retro signs.  Here are a few around New Market:

Below:  LittleFreeLibrary.org has turned an old telephone booth into a library: