Denver Post photographer RJ Sangosti spent time over the past year making pictures in communities across the high plains of eastern Colorado. He found that all is not well for this section of small-town America. Along with battling a major drought in recent years, the area’s agricultural earning power has continued to decline. Farms got big, and small farmers got out. The younger generation moved away to get college educations and never returned to teach, practice law or to take over their parents’ businesses. The corporate, big-box stores in nearby cities continually choked out their small, main street businesses, and housing values declined. Yet people remain and endure. This series of photographs presents a vignette of life in Eastern Colorado: Low times on the high plains.
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