After retiring from his engineering job in 2008, Jim Whitehead focused on his passions for photography and travel, including several trips to middle America.

A series of his photographs, Midwest Memories, is featured at The Griffin Museum at the Aberjona River Gallery in Winchester, from Sept. 16 through Nov. 8. An opening reception will be held on Oct. 6, from 6-7:30 p.m.

“The Midwest was once mostly open prairie where herds of animals roamed freely,” Whitehead said. “Today the Midwest, our industrial heartland and the source of much of our food, is undergoing considerable change as it adapts to the new economy. There is a growing sense of the need to integrate preservation with revitalization, leveraging the past to build for the future.”

The photographs range from places of beauty in the Midwest, such as the Indiana dunes, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan, and scenes from cruising down the Mississippi River. They are also of amusing “tourist traps” and the charm of such places as Mackinaw Island in Michigan, where bicycles, horses, and horse-drawn carriages are the only means of transportation.

Source: Taunton Daily Gazette