It Happened Again...

For the third time this year, the Paul Dever State School suffered a fire on the campus. This time it was only a small cottage, but it's still a bunch of bullshit. I hope someone lights whoever is responsible for the fires mom on fire.

This is a photo taken roughly a month or so ago of the building that was claimed a total loss in the most recent fire.
This is a screen capture from the news story I just viewed.

Playing With PA

This weekend was Neopex weekend for many people across New England, but Abandoned Dreams decided not to take part in the event. Instead, we met up with some of my favorite people in the UE scene, Johnny Sokko and Vincennes, who themselves had come down from PA to partake in the event. We had AbandonedNH kidnap the two of them and decided to check out a few local spots. We began our day at Dever. Sokko had visited Dever with me a few months back after PancakePex, but Vincennes had never seen it in the daytime. We arrived later than originally planned and checked out a few buildings, until there was no sunlight left to photograph by. We decided to head to the roof to smoke a joint and play Marco Polo with security. We screamed, they searched. After messing with security for an hour or so we took off, in search of our next location.







After having our fun with security at Dever, we headed over to a favorite winter location of mine. This hospital is fully heated and powered, and has absolutely no graffiti inside of it. We spent a few hours photographing this building before spotting a cop outside doing rounds. We figured we'd wait him out and take off. Another wonderful trip to this location.









I'd like to thank Johnny Sokko and Vincennes for coming down and hanging with us, as well as AbandonedNH for carting us around for the night. I know we had a great time seeing you all again and hope to do it more often.

The K9 Academy

Every explorers have their off days, and this was ours. Cambria and I met up with our friend Injektilo and some other kid he was showing around for some exploring in his city. Long story short: 7 cruisers, one K9, hiding in a gym balcony, surrender, laughs, dildos, ball gags, and release. All without even getting arrested. Good times. The last two shots are just from Mt. MaryJane while waiting for the train.

The Sand Dollar Resort

Less of a resort, more of a residence. The kitchen was nice, but the rest of the house, aside form one room on the second floor had been gutted in an attempt to remodel the house at one point. The basement was still untouched and full of crap from the former owners. Bunches of fun.

Back To Balfour

Balfour Mill is a location that has popped up on the Abandoned Dreams site many times. Once headquarters to a popular jewelry company then home to various businesses including a lumber store, a Kodak film developing center, and an art studio containing 100 or so paintings done by local artists. The building was once packed with belongings of former tenants, but now sits empty, abated. some of the only surviving artifacts in the building happen t be those paintings, but the numbers have dropped to only a dozen, if even. The best paintings are gone, but the ones left behind are still quite interesting.
















Here are some of the 100 or so paintings that resided in the building until they abated it in late 2007/early 2008.