Extraordinary. Did you know about this before you went to Naples? It seems so unlikely, but so wonderful that someone thought it was important to save this structure.
1) See the best Rosa Parks statue: Wikipedia "Rosa Parks statue (Eugene, Oregon)." That her home was exiled to another country is in keeping with how she was treated in the United States. 2) I spent a week in Nashville and went to a plantation. The preserved lot was small. The house was large but unremarkable, not a Tara mansion. It was closed for renovation. Nearby was a small log cabin. I was stunned to stand there, looking at the home of black people who were owned by the white people in the house, and who were forced to work for them with little opportunity to escape. Then I decided that the one room cabin was probably a replica. No matter, I was standing in the same space where they stood not many years before. I envisioned them. To be there in person is impactful in a way that isn't felt from viewing photos. It hadn't taken much time for me to travel there. The city looked the same as any city. Since then, slavery hasn't seemed distant from me in space or time.
So interesting! Thanks for this!
Amazing story, beautifully written. Thank you, Jan!
Extraordinary. Did you know about this before you went to Naples? It seems so unlikely, but so wonderful that someone thought it was important to save this structure.
Wild Jan! Shocking no one in the states saved her house.
1) See the best Rosa Parks statue: Wikipedia "Rosa Parks statue (Eugene, Oregon)." That her home was exiled to another country is in keeping with how she was treated in the United States. 2) I spent a week in Nashville and went to a plantation. The preserved lot was small. The house was large but unremarkable, not a Tara mansion. It was closed for renovation. Nearby was a small log cabin. I was stunned to stand there, looking at the home of black people who were owned by the white people in the house, and who were forced to work for them with little opportunity to escape. Then I decided that the one room cabin was probably a replica. No matter, I was standing in the same space where they stood not many years before. I envisioned them. To be there in person is impactful in a way that isn't felt from viewing photos. It hadn't taken much time for me to travel there. The city looked the same as any city. Since then, slavery hasn't seemed distant from me in space or time.