Jack Armstrong prepares to throw a bale of hay and alfalfa over the fence into a pen of Texas Longhorns while his horse watches at their family ranch in Balmorhea, Texas, March 11, 2024. Their ranch house and farm sits on over 40 acres of land in the small town in West Texas of 398 citizens. There, Jack and his mother run the farm, grow alfalfa, and raise the cattle.
Darrell Dugan pauses while practicing jabs on a punching bag at Sam's Gym in Glouster, Ohio, Jan. 7, 2024. Dugan has been attending the gym for over 60 years, both coaching and practicing himself. He was one of Sam's first students whom he taught when he was 11.
The inside of Calera Chapel, originally called Mission Mary, the only remaining building in the now empty town of Calera, roughly three miles West of Balmorhea, Texas, March 12, 2024. According to Betty Armstrong of Balmorhea, Texas, and Mark Dent, journalist for Texas Monthly, Calera Chapel was originally built by the Mexican-American settlers in the community of about one hundred people in the early 1900s. By the 1940s, after Calera's residents abandoned the town in search of work, the chapel sat empty and abandoned. But in 2002 the Calera Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to restore the historic structure, began renovations on the abandoned chapel, culminating in a dedication in May of 2003. Today, the one-room chapel has reopened to the public.
Members of the Marching 110 gather to perform at the 2024 Homecoming Parade at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, September 28, 2024.
A young girl smiles while at Kamala Harris's campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September, 25, 2024.
A horse stands outside the indoor arena during Smoke Rise Ranch’s Customer Appreciation Cattle Weekend at Smoke Rise Ranch in Murray City, Ohio, November 17, 2024.
Ohio University students shotgun a BORG vodka water during Athens Fest on Hocking Street, Athens, Ohio, April 19, 2024
Will and Eric Gibson stand in a patch of grass that they are attempting to reintroduce after it was trampled and damaged for decades by tractors at Sugar Butte Farms in Lowell, Ohio, Sept. 23, 2024.
A stuffed toy bear lays in the grass at Skatopia in Rutland, Ohio, April 16, 2024.
Tawney Williams holds hands with her 102 year old grandmother, Clara Bass, in Balmorhea, Texas, March, 12, 2024.
Two men smoke and sit on wheelchairs inside the one of the indoor sections of Skatopia during the three day Work Party event at Skatopia in Rutland, Ohio, March 30, 2024.
Alex Goodin and Tarran Blackstone box at Sam's Gym in Glouster, Ohio, Feb. 5, 2024.
Anthony Holland shows his hand tattoos at Larry's Dawg House on W. Union St. in Athens, Ohio, February 20, 2024. Across eight fingers Holland has the words "GAME OVER" and "KENTUCKY", the latter representing his home state. Holland has 35+ tattoos, and when asked if he regrets any he explained, "Yeah, a few. But not really. They all represent memories, they all got a story."
Athens residents set out chairs on the side of N College St., Athens, Ohio, for the 2024 Homecoming Parade, September 28, 2024.
Alex Goodin rests in the corner of the boxing ring as Justin "Mighty Peanut" Sayers walks toward him at Sam's Gym in Glouster, Ohio, February 5, 2024. The weekend prior, Feb. 3, Sayers won $1000 in his weightclass at a boxing competition.
Ellie Clark moves boxes of scripts and books from a U-Haul into her home on East State Street, Athens, Ohio after her partner drove the truck 8 hours from Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 8, 2024. Ellie explains many of her belongings were still at their home in Atlanta over the past year, so they were not just moving her partner, Evan, into the new home, but rather moving their life as a couple in.
Jack Armstrong and Danny Williams prepare to fire guns in a home-made gun range on Jack William's ranch in Balmorhea, Texas, March 12, 2024.
