Water Receded
Personal memory by Kari Fotis
2020 CE • Muskegon, MI, USA
Growing up in MI, we lived by Lake Michigan and went down to Pere Marquette Beach every Sunday with our grandma. There was a large beach area on one side and the edge of the lake was right next to the road. We could park and the water would go over our car. Now, it is no where near the road.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Don...The UpNorth Memories Guy... Harrison via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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