Lovely piece by Nancy Macdonald of the @theglobeandmail.com, gifted here so all can read. An old building is a book of many chapters, bearing the marks of many generations - Ruskin's "walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e94a79c...
Preserving places means letting them change. My family’s Kenora hotel taught me thatThe hotel my great-grandfather once owned, and the family camp he built, won’t survive if they exist only in the pastwww.theglobeandmail.com