Paul Shoul is a Northampton, MA-based photographer who doubles as a staff writer for GoNOMAD. For thirty years he's lived in the Pioneer Valley and chronicled life there through his work in the Valley Advocate. He's also been seen in the Boston Globe, New York Times, BBC, the Chronicle of Higher Education and many other publications. Today as well as shooting around the world for GoNOMAD he works for local nonprofits, banks and advertising agencies.
It was early spring as we drove through the main intersection of Lawrence, Kansas. We banged a right onto Massachusetts Street, named by the abolitionist “New England Emigrant Aid Society” in 1854. I…