Stepping back in time
Because South Carolina was colonized fairly early, I always took “old” buildings for granted. There was an antebellum home almost within sight of where I grew up, and there are historical markers all over the place. Added to this was the fact our family’s Indian tribe had been in the same area a lot longer, although there isn’t much physical evidence of it lying around.
When I went to college in Utah, that all changed. Even the oldest buildings in Salt Lake City were young by comparison, and the ones in Provo are even younger.
I was thinking about it all this morning as I read a sort of guidebook to Abruzzo (a region in Italy) that Kevin picked up at a conference a few weeks ago. It mentions Fontecchio, at the foot of Mount Sirente, and its “typical 14th-century fountain.”
It’ll be fun to return to the Old World, even if it is just for a couple of years.
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