These people over at the Courthouse Square are not looking at their feet. No, they are taking a quick tour of local history via one of our timelines carved into and painted on the walkway on the Gurley Street side.
Notable events, beginning in 1501, are cut into the cement, painted -- and periodically updated. A new paint job is also a regular event.
An even more ambitious timeline adorns the sidewalk up the incline along Goodwin Street over at the library. I didn't catch the absolute beginning date, but it starts back in earliest Egypt or maybe Ur and moves on up to present days.
As you can see, the Far East as well as Europe and the Middle East are represented. I know, I know, it isn't fashionable to link history to dates these days; on the other hand, dates do create a timeline...a framework, as it were, to give order to cultural, scientific and political developments. Our local timelines are a cool way to brief folks on where we've been and where we come from! I say hurrah for the people who created and maintain them.
These people over at the Courthouse Square are not looking at their feet. No, they are taking a quick tour of local history via one of our timelines carved into and painted on the walkway on the Gurley Street side.
Notable events, beginning in 1501, are cut into the cement, painted -- and periodically updated. A new paint job is also a regular event.
An even more ambitious timeline adorns the sidewalk up the incline along Goodwin Street over at the library. I didn't catch the absolute beginning date, but it starts back in earliest Egypt or maybe Ur and moves on up to present days.
As you can see, the Far East as well as Europe and the Middle East are represented. I know, I know, it isn't fashionable to link history to dates these days; on the other hand, dates do create a timeline...a framework, as it were, to give order to cultural, scientific and political developments. Our local timelines are a cool way to brief folks on where we've been and where we come from! I say hurrah for the people who created and maintain them.
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