Control Room

Even in monochrome, you can probably tell what colors were over Hastings that evening: Red, White, and Blue.

The top of the barracks staircase.

My first picture at Nopeming, sometime around 2004. The same year that the county stopped mowing the lawn.

The turned rail was to prevent runaway cars from going over the end of the dock and into the lake.

A fireproof room in the basement, perhaps for ammunition storage at one time.

A mix of brick and stone construction where the stock house meets the cellars. The caves brought well water to the brewery and drained the refuse away, and the various sewer connections are visible here and tell the story of the company’s expansion above.

The metallic arms of the missile erector, which would stand rockets over the blast pit in the launch position. Medium Format film–cheap but excellent Fomapan 100 in a Pentax 67.

A wide view of the hallway behind the small performance space, covered in hundreds of names, aphorisms, and acts that walked up the stairs to the right and onto the small stage.

Spring melt flows down the rusty rock house. In the background is the frame for the shaft.