There’s more than a little desolation in this week’s edition. This abandoned girder bridge is at Webb’s Mill outside Spring Hope. Stumbling over it was quite a surprise as it runs barely used by fishermen, high over the Tar River. I must look through some old photos. I took photos of the mill operating about 30 years ago.

The stone ruins are of St. Agnes Hospital on the St. Augustine’s College campus in Raleigh. It is where boxing champion Jack Johnson died back in 1946. It was the only hospital and nurses training center for African Americans between Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC for nearly 50 years. It closed in 1961.

To lighten things up a bit, there’s also a little girl selling lemonade and a grasshopper that seems to have caught on that lots of corn goes into automobile fuel tanks these days.

PAW 25 is here.