Laura Stotts: Forgotten Houses, WWII Letters, & What Abandonment Teaches Us. EP 19

Douglas Taurel interviews photographer Laura Stotts, known online as Diary of Abandonment, who documents abandoned and forgotten houses, artifacts left behind, ghost towns, and gravestone cleaning.02:14 Pay phone Nostalgia05:05 How She Finds Houses11:11 From Hobby to Community17:15 Lessons on Mortality35:26 World War II Letters41:31 Pilot Down Over France43:26 Mothers Trading War News55:33 Reading Harold’s 1945 Letter01:16:51 Lessons for Feeling Stuck01:18:13 Sobriety01:39:39 Overcoming Any ChallengeFollow Laura: 🌐 diaryofabandonment.com 📸 @DiaryofAbandonment on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook & X Also known as The Queen of RustFollow Douglas at:www.DouglasTaurel.com‍ www.TheAmericanSoldierSoloShow.com www.LandingHomeWebseries.com’X Instagram Facebook Page

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