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Pre-Post Mortem Photography
Harrison Schultz had no desire to displease his mother, but what choice did he have? For a generation, men of his age in this town had always taken to the river, arming themselves with cant hook and hatchet and boarding the nearest skiff they could find. The river could not be trusted alone with the logs. The river could not be trusted. And so, Harrison, like the many river rats who had come before, maneuvered the logs to the mill down river. Before he was a river rat he was a son, a brother, a tackle for the high school football team. He was a model, too, for a moment: posing for his mother with the Brownie in her hand. Fearing the worst, she wept as she photographed her only son. She told him to smile. He told her to smile. They didn’t. Words by BJ Hollars. Audio narration by Rob Reid. Audio recording by Scott Morfitt. |