Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Can't wait to read the new Sarah Vowell book. I think about Buffalo's place on the world stage at the time of the McKinley assassination whenever I go past the marble obelisk on my way to court. It's funny-- the monument is right smack dab in front of City Hall, a very visible atonement, and a huge contrast to the marker that is situated at the place where he was shot. The latter is simply a plaque on a bolder in the middle of a grassy divider strip on a residential street. I also can't help contrasting the McKinley site with the scene in front of the Dallas Book Depository-- all those earnest nuts with protractor and cameras walking around, looking up, pointing...
// posted by Bill @ 9:22 AM 
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