My great friend Michelle and I looked at the renovation going on across the street from this year’s Martinfest, and we wondered.
What had been in that building before the supermarket and boutique coffee shop on the bottom floor and newly restored apartments to come upstairs?
Even though we’d worked for decades at the big daily just a block or two away, neither of us could recall.

Oh Mark, I love this question. My friend and I do ‘city’ hikes a few times a year. I love looking at the buildings and wondering their history through my imagination, the lives that it held and that passed through it.
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It is an interesting perspective for sure, MBC!
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i love imagining the stories of what has happened in a place, before it is reincarnated as something else –
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So many stories, I am sure, Beth.
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I love old buildings. And I like thinking about what they used to be and I’m quite fascinated by abandoned schools and shopping malls.
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They have so many stories within, Jen.
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