Yesterday, I taught a class at a facility on Alice Street in Helena. Alice Street is unusual because it is literally the edge of town. A hard edge.
On
one side, you find a standard cityscape: paved streets, parked vehicles,
apartment buildings, commercial properties.
On
the other side runs a seemingly endless strand-wire fence. It stands as an
absolute demarcation, like glass holding back water. Beyond it lies undeveloped
prairie stretching for miles.
It’s
strange to drive along Alice Street with the city shouldering against you on
one side and open land rolling away on the other. The two worlds meet, but they
do not blend.
I’m
sharing two photographs today. The first was taken through a window in the
facility where I was teaching and shows the fence and prairie on the
undeveloped side of Alice Street. The second is a map-view capture from above.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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