What tiny towns in rural America can teach the cities about adaptation
One couple has made it their mission to document buildings and signs across the country. In doing so, they have busted a few myths and maybe even their own misconceptions about modern rural America.
When Zach Huelsing and Jon Lehman started dating long-distance in 2007, the lonely drives on the highway to see each other soon became tedious.
So they began taking the side roads, winding their way between Chicago and downstate Illinois, and taking photos from blink-and-you-miss-them towns.
"Just to show what we had seen on these journeys," Jon says.
Within a few years, they had amassed a decent trove of images focused on the buildings, signs and symbols in the towns they was created.
