When it was time to start exhibiting The Winco Project, for months I was at a loss of where to begin telling this story about my community. The story of our history and culture is interwoven with the history of our churches, all 26 that are still standing, and the many churches that are gone. So for the last several weeks I have been visiting every church building in the county, photographing them all. It was probably the most time I have spent at church since I was a kid, and most of them look exactly the same as they did then. Many of these rural churches are not meeting regularly, their sanctuaries quiet time capsules, hymnals waiting, smelling faintly of Vacation Bible School. There is something quietly reassuring about these places scattered across Scott County; somehow photographing 26 rural churches in quiet contemplation was more healing than 1000 trips to the mega church with the cool band.