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Scott Strazzante - Another country
From the website: Thirteen years ago, Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante began visiting a family farm near Lockport owned by Harlow and Jean Cagwin. Over the years he took thousands of pictures of the couple and their land and all the creatures that lived there. In 2002, along with writer Don Terry, he chronicled the farm's end. Call it death, if you will. Call it progress, if you must. "I never considered following the Cagwins to their new life," says Strazzante. (They bought a grain farm near downstate Ashkum.) "But I was determined to one day go back to their land and see what had happened to it. Whenever I gave a talk and showed my work, I would tell people that." Last March, after a presentation at the College of DuPage, Strazzante was approached by one of the people in the audience, Amanda Grabenhofer, who lives on what had been the Cagwin farm. She invited him for a visit.
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