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To: Suma who wrote (34610)	6/17/2004 12:00:21 PM
From: Crocodile	of 104167

We have lots of OLD up here in the mountains of NC... Barns, bridges, dirt roads men and women... It's nice. Yes, I'll bet there is plenty of history there. One of the things I like to do when I go wandering off to explore some new place is to read the land and the architecture. The history of each place as written on its architecture and on the land. Seems so fascinating to me. A wander through any older town will soon reveal the age of each section by the the Italianate, Craftsman, Federal, or Edwardian houses that line its streets. The ruins of old factories, mills and power plants speak volumes on the industrial past. The barns reveal the history of agriculture in that region... be it by the tobacco-drying houses or the dairy barns and silos. One glance at the churches will tell you much about the religion and even the ethnicity of the original residents of the countryside. That's one of the aspects that I enjoy most about travel.. getting to know a place through its architecture. However, I can't help wondering what "history" will be told to future visitors by our sprawling cities with their suburban McMansions and big box stores. Sometimes I think I worry too much about what will be. (o: croc

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