Drake’s Folly By Dan Mariner

The project “Drake’s Folly” focuses on the town of Titusville in Pennsylvania, where in 1859, a gentleman named Colonel Edwin Drake became the first person to discover and successfully extract crude oil for commercial use, thus kick starting the biggest industrial revolution our planet has seen and changing the face of the planet forever. * If you wish to read more. I can send you a full text essay from the the project to contextualise the imagery I have sent you, plus many more images from the series. Best Dan