The Same But Different

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #269

Facebook groups focused on people who grew up somewhere—“our memories,” “you know you’re from X if…”, “We’re from Y and we remember…”—are amazing resources for local history. I’m willing to be that in many cases, there is literally no documentation of some of the things shared in these groups, other than the posts themselves.

I often write about this sor…