They tore down the bricks, you know.
I was there and watched it go.
It became part of the past,
How I hoped that it would last.
And yet, history moves on,
What's once here will soon be gone,
All that we think is here to stay,
Will too be torn down someday.
Donovan Baldwin
I feel this every time I see a familiar landmark of my past torn down. In fact, there were two houses demolished where I live and our historic society/museum got the opportunity to do archeological forensics on before they were taken down. I attended the session they had about these houses, their history and what they found. What I found most interesting was learning more about these houses when originally built and that one was a farm and the other (right next door) was a factory tennent house. Weird to have these side-by-side.