“Eldredge”

digital

2024

Eldredge was a languid landscape: a flaccid stupor of deformed trees and dehydrated grass. The men walked about dimly, eyes glazed as pickled and fermented as the land. A former mill town that worked in cotton before the industry went south, enticed by cheaper labor and proximity to the crop. The town’s population was predominantly of French-Canadian origin, having settled in Eldredge for work and opportunity, only to be abandoned for the bottom line. A lack of prospects and employment bred a certain type of man and culture over the years. Today, Eldredge exists as a town of vice, a dead museum exhibiting a cross-section of American white trash.