The Lazarus Project
By K.C. Hanson
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K.C. Hanson
K.C. Hanson received his MFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead, and is a winner of the Rachel Baker Award for Creative Writing. His work has been featured in The Blue Bear Review, Ginosko, Red Weather, and other magazines. He now lives in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he teaches English at Minnesota State Community and Technical College and North Dakota State University.
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The Lazarus Project - K.C. Hanson
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Foreword
The Lazarus Project is very much just that, an attempt to wake the dead. It is a resurrection of voices lost in the American past due to death of a blood line, literally or figuratively, and a celebration of the art that has allowed what little we have of these people’s history to come forth in time. On the Internet, where fully half of these pictures were purchased, they are often tagged as instant ancestors.
Somehow this is very telling of our culture. My intent, though, is to make it true—to make of my readers, at least, literary descendants of these people.
Because these photos represent family and history we have lost, I have spent a great deal of time running each photo through a Google image search—and every marking through an extensive textual search—in an attempt to discover any holders of copyright. I was lucky enough to find the descendants of some of the photographers, and to gain a set of names for one photo. Though most of the photographs are too old for it to matter, my search did not reveal a copyright holder for any of the images. They are printed here as orphaned photos. Most of the people in them remain a complete mystery. If you recognize any of them, please contact me. My greatest desire is that at least some of them might find their way home. My email is [email protected].
What little I know about the pictures is listed along with the credits.
– K.C.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
–William Shakespeare
Before the Steeple
We stood on the cusp of a great new world, balanced
like the long row of cars, black with envy,
tipping