Between 1972 and 1977 with the support of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of Art, Frank Gohlke traveled through the central tier of the United States from his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to the Texas Panhandle, documenting grain elevators. The project was a meditation on the vast spaces of the Great Plains, the heartland of American agricultural productivity, and the centrality of the grain elevator to its social, cultural and symbolic life. In 2024 I researched and located 24 of his original subjects and followed in his footsteps documenting his elevators 50 years later.