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Stacks of chairs sit in front of the blackboard in the abandoned Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne. A lesson on the mathematical order of operations was left on the blackboard.

 

The Last Lesson The Last Lesson

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The Last Lesson

I graduated from Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne in 1994. My parents both graduated from Elmhurst in the late 1960s. It was Elmhurst's longtime art teacher, Don Goss, who made me realize that I was destined to be a professional artist. The school, which opened in the 1920s, was closed in 2010.

In August of 2012, Fort Wayne Community Schools auctioned off the furniture and equipment in the building. I made this photograph in one of the classroom the day before the auction, when the school was opened for auction attendees to preview the items that would be sold the next day. A math teacher's last lesson is still there on the blackboard.

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