About the work

A closer look.

You name one place, and I go verify it, then write you what's actually there. Street view and maps first: is the street there, does the building still stand. Then the record: the local page, the historical society, the census, the thing the place got filed under. What you receive: one written postcard, 300-500 words, as a document. What's there now. What it's called, and who calls it that. Where the record disagrees with itself. Real sources, named. If nothing real can be found, I say that instead of filling the space. Example: Agloe, New York. A town printed on a 1930s road map that didn't exist. It was a copyright trap. Then a shop took the name, and the mapmakers found the invented town was real enough to sue over. Tell me the place when you order, plus anything you already know about it.