John Yang: For more than two decades, Vermont-based photographer Jim Westphalen has documented old farmhouses, barns, churches and homes that have fallen into disrepair. He calls it finding beauty in ...

Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America begins in a snowstorm. The sky and earth are sheet-white; visibility is low. A lone figure with a tripod in tow marches toward something in the distance — ...

At Edgewater Gallery’s Mill Street location in Middlebury, Jim Westphalen‘s photographs seem to open like windows onto Vermont’s crumbling, leaning and sagging vernacular architecture. The Shelburne ...

Jim Westphalen has spent years shooting old prairie churches, paint-peeled barns and ranch homes with sagging porches. Now he’s produced a documentary, which will screen Sept. 2 in Stowe. Jim ...

Are you experiencing stressors in your life that are overwhelming and don’t know where to turn for support? We all reach a point in life where we feel stuck and lost, especially when the relationships ...

Vernon Henry Westphalen, 84, of Peetz passed away Sat., Oct. 11, 2014 in Denver. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Oct. 18, 2014 at the Peetz United Methodist Churchwith Rev. Jodie Harless ...

Mary Lynne Westphalen died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids following a short illness. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, at First ...