For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
A loom fixer for an Amsterdam carpet mill set up shop as a gunsmith in 1948 and then made his living building custom rifles and repairing firearms until his death in 1960.
On the drive home, noticing a spectacular evening sky -– a mauve afterglow of day -– crowned by a slowly rising crescent moon. All this just moments after careening off the highway.
