Hard times. Times have been hard for this particular location, just a couple miles from town in Atchison County, for years.
A beer hall, a dance hall (exotic), and finally a used car dealership that succumbed to the inevitable fire.
What was once a prairie went tall grass again, and a euro-schooner sinks beneath the still-green waves.
"We Finance" the harbinger of hard times we should have known we couldn't rely on.
How we react to this oracle says more about us than it does about the nature of disaster: hang on hope or laugh at the irony?
Perhaps we can manage both?
