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Originally posted by Incandenza View Post
I was supposed to be there in April. How did you like the city? Did you take the ferry to Itsukushima?
Was only in the area for one night (part of a multi-stage trip), so can't comment in great detail, but I thought the peace memorial was done well, focusing on the horrors of nuclear weapons – unsurprisingly it didn't focus on the reasons why Japan was targeted, but neither did it condemn the USA for attacking.
The parts of town just beyond that area seemed to be quite normal for a Japanese town, I can't say anything in particular jumps out in my memory about Hiroshima outside of the peace memorial and the island, although that could just be a combination of bad memory and lack of exploring time.
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Taylor Branch's work on Martin Luther King is excellent on the history of the Second Baptist Church on Dexter Avenue, Montgomery (the congregation gradually expanded due to the arrival of people who had become disenchanted with the First Baptist Church). Photographed last Friday, July 24:
Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 30-07-2020, 23:34.
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I think there is a difference between a place that becomes historical because something happened and a location that becomes historical simply due to the accretion of time.
I wasn't being totally serious about withdrawing the Romer picture anyway. A building that looks like that has stood there for hundreds of years and the way that it was reconstructed probably makes it historical in itself (not just the Romer but the entire Romerberg).
Anyway, have a picture of some historical vandalism.
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