"It was never part of Aurora's culture to steep themselves in the
past. There was little to speak of. We are a young country. A young
town. Our past and our present is one and the same."
The first part of that paragraph is cited in an anonymous comment
It needs to be read in context of the whole.
A hundred and fifty years grow less,the longer one lives. It's a matter of perspective.
2012 is one hundred and ten years since my mother was born.
A hundred and thirty six since my grandmother's birth.
Their influence and presence in my life is still fresh and current.
My mother died in 1992. The twenty years between have passed in a flash.
It provides a measurement for time, a focus to history, I didn't have when I was younger.
It brings it closer. Makes it more meaningful.
My great- grandfather's generation founded Aurora.
I know what they came from and what they came to. I know what they made of it, how hard that was and how much we owe.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
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Actually, our little country crossroads has been here over two hundred years.
"The first part of that paragraph is cited in an anonymous comment"
So, where's the full comment of 'what I said'?
1:44 PM
Yes, it was here and people went straight through it stopping only to water the horse or later on to change a tire. You are not going to catch Evelyn up on history. Just give the nit-picking a bloody break.
You're right, 5:25, what's a half-century here or there?
"You are not going to catch Evelyn up on history."
How about geography? *cough* number of golf courses *cough*
Or arithmetic......
But then she admits that she does not understand the accounting process of the Town anyways, why get bogged down in semantics
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