Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Your story of the $12 million teardown of a historical house in Winnetka reminds me of a remark made by an English houseguest of ours who had just been to Washington, D.C.: “The house I live in in England is 400 years old, and they [Americans] expect me to be impressed by 200-year-old buildings.”
The Colosseum in Rome is still worth visiting after two millennia, but we’ve torn down Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh and Riverfront in Cincinnati. There’s talk here in Champaign of replacing the University of Illinois Assembly Hall (just renovated extensively), apparently mostly because it’s approaching 40.
How about developing a sense of history instead?
