Candi

Exploring around  Chauncy, Ohio, I came across a number of children flolicking in a small neighborhood. I walked aorund asking if I could take pictures of the kids (don't try this today!). The parents present agreed and here is where I met Candi, who was the cover of my Appalachian book. Many years passed before I began working with the images. Finding Candi 40 years kater became an obsession for me. On my second trip back to the area I stopped at a convenient store with some pictures of people I had photographed 40 years  earlier. I left and an hour later I recived a call saying that they knew where Candi lived. She was less than a mile from the spot I first phographered her. She was happily married with a large family. It was a sweet encounter I will never forget. She was an amazing woman with a very interesting life. We became facebook friends until her untimely death. I'll never forget that grown up woman in the form of a child in Appalachia.

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