March 4, 2014

Walking around the tile company in New London, Ohio, photographing its lovely corrugated siding and seeing sagging weatherbeaten pallets of quarry tile and brick around the premises, I thought it was abandoned property. Not so. The rather fresh handwritten note on the front door says, “Sorry we missed you. We will be open by appointment. Please call [phone number] leave a message and we will get back with you. Thank you!” Peeking in the windows, I could see stacks and stacks of different kinds of tile.