Michael Hammond (this website is a work in progress; bear with me)

You're looking at a photograph of an empty building standing at the T-intersection of 140th Street (a county road, basically) and Highway 67, also known as the Great River Road,  The Mississippi River is flowing a mile or two behind this building.  This spot is known as Almont, Iowa, and is part of Elk River Township.  My father grew up on a farm located a couple of miles south of here.  My mother grew up on a farm a few miles west of here.  They had their first date at a dance-hall-turned-roller-rink once located in the corn field across the road from this building.  My father's parents dropped by every Thursday night when it was still a dance hall.  There's nothing there now.   Except corn.  And ghosts.