(Source: The Atlantic, December 13, 2012)
In the summer of 1974, a young photographer named Charles O’Rear spent a month or so riding the young intercity train system named Amtrak. “I probably rode it 5,000 miles,” says O’Rear, now 71. The project was one of many O’Rear did for Documerica, a program initiated in 1971 by the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency to document American life at the time, from people to wildlife to landscapes.
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