#freeport

[vintagecamping]

Loaded up and ready to go.

Freeport, Maine

1970

#vintage camping #campfire light #maine #freeport #ford bronco #old town canoe #road trips #camping #fishing #1970s

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

Went on a vacation via a Cruise this past week!! I traveled to the Bahamas where I went on a Glass Bottom Boat excursion (in Freeport, our first port stop) and got to see Caribbean Reef Sharks in the wild!! It was a pretty neat experience, but I think it could have been better. Here are some pics! (Sorry they aren't the best, but if you've been on one of these type of boats, you know how it is.)

#caribbean reef sharks #caribbean #reef shark #shark blog #respect the locals #sharks #shark post #advocacy for sharks #cartilaginous fish #shark awareness #save the sharks #cruise #bahamas #freeport #cruise excursion #glass bottom boat #wild sharks #shark photos #shark photography #my photos #my photography #photography #photographer #marine #marine life #ocean #ocean life

[rabbitfinder]

#rabbitfinder #bunnies #bunny #rabbit #rabbits #petfinder #Dust Bunny #Freeport #FL

[unteriors]

N West Avenue, Freeport, Illinois.

#Freeport #Illinois

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Here's a real treat from home for you people out in the Ether.

BEHOLD THE HAUNTED INN OF WEST REVERE

From back home in Freeport; they really went all out this year. They've been doing this for as long as I can remember, so at least since 1996.

#VIDEO #The Haunted Inn of West Revere #Halloween #Freeport #Kasperl IRL #2023

[astral-crescent]

Here's some photographs I took in Freeport, TX of the Milky Way.

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The camera I took this with was taken from me and I don't know if I will ever be able to afford the thousands of dollars being held over my head to retrieve everything I own.

-> https://ko-fi.com/astralcrescent

-> https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/twinfish22

Everything that goes to these, goes to: Medicine for myself, my mother, and our pets; Groceries; Transportation fare; Medical Bills; Doctors Appointments; Vet Bills; Utilities. Thanks.

#photography #freeport #galveston #texas #milky way #nebula #stars #hobby photographer #crusty but still pretty #beach

[boomcomplains]

#gundam wing #wufei chang #duo maxwell #freeport #my art #I’ve kinda reached the end of my ability on this so I guess it’s finished

[daysinayear2015]

Day 050: February 19, 2024

Tidebrook Preserve walk with Louis and Sarah. Freeport, ME.

#3662024 #freeport #maine

[texasobserver]

From “Goodbye to a Neighborhood” by Delger Erdensesanaa:

In the small Gulf Coast city of Freeport, a pretty mint-green house stands alone in a neighborhood called the East End, surrounded by what looks at first glance like a meadow. Closer examination reveals the grass is growing over recently emptied lots where other houses once stood. Now driveways lead to nowhere. 

Pam Tilley, a retired military nurse who grew up here, returned in February to see her childhood home one last time. She was there to clear out her 98-year-old father Henry Jones’ belongings. Calendars on the wall were still turned to February 2020, the last full month anyone lived there. For the past three years, Jones has been living with another daughter in the Houston suburb of Katy, originally because of the COVID-19 pandemic but now because he no longer owns this home.

The commissioners of nearby Port Freeport have condemned Tilley’s family property by eminent domain. The port is expanding to accommodate bigger Panamax container ships, and has been buying up the East End bit by bit. Any day, the mint-green house will be demolished as its neighbors have been.

The neighborhood, until recently a vibrant community, was initially formed by segregation of the city’s Black residents in the 1930s into a few square blocks. When Tilley was growing up, the modus operandi was that “you have to live here or nowhere,” she said. She remembers that older African-American residents like her parents felt, “if we have to live here, it’s going to be the best community ever.” They made the best of the situation, and turned the East End into a happy place to live.

Back in 2017, lawyers for the nonprofit Lone Star Legal Aid stepped in to help residents make a federal civil rights complaint against Port Freeport, as well as the City of Freeport, to several federal agencies that have provided funding to the port and the city. The Department of Homeland Security finally agreed to investigate the case last year.

But the process has taken so long that almost everybody from this close-knit community is already gone.It was like being “one of the last on the planet,” Tilley said. Only one other family from her tight-knit African-American community remains at home.

A few East End families still have individual lawsuits pending against Port Freeport. Tilley and her family were set to go to court earlier this month in an effort to dispute the port’s valuation of Henry Jones’ home. Instead, after years of contentious negotiation, the family and the port recently reached a settlement, which Tilley called “forced.” She would have preferred to be heard in court, but her family was worn out from years of fighting.

Read more on Texas Observer.

#freeport #environmental justice #oil and gas #energy #gulf coast

[jon-decor]

Summer parties 🔥

#nyc #good vibes only #summer nights #summer #summer party #freeport #waterfront #drinks #fun #birthday cake #happy birthday

[digidyllic]

#freeport #bahamas #coconut girl #summercore #beachcore #margaritaville #cruise #destinations #travel photography #ocean #blue waters

[vintagecamping]

Lakebound. Freeport, Maine

1938

#vintage camping #campfire light #freeport #maine #1930s #hiking #history #canoeing #fishing #vintage fashion

[red-beard-viking]

#sunset #boatlife #freeport #scenery

[miiiiichhhh]

#llbean #freeport #maine #newengland #stringlights

[unteriors]

N West Avenue, Freeport, Illinois.

#Freeport #Illinois

[mongogushi]

FreePort Talbot. #goodnews #porttalbot #porttalbotcultureclub #freeport #wales #welshart #welshartist #celf #weather #painting (at Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOet2lo9bb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#goodnews #porttalbot #porttalbotcultureclub #freeport #wales #welshart #welshartist #celf #weather #painting