… what could be better? Here’s a pic of the Dining Room inside the Starved Rock Lodge. Much of the park’s infrastructure was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps – a public works project from the Great Depression. The Lodge itself is built of chinked logs and has a great rustic feel. I especially liked the doorway to the dining room, with the warm fire burning in the distance. I chatted with a nice guy a few years my senior from Utica as I snapped this shot, he used to do a lot of film photography for the local paper. I tried to convince him that digital is king …
Photo by Justin Kern – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission.


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