Another pitch-perfect thread!
I have to say that I especially like seeing other cities' monuments, such as that pillar in the square itself. I guess it's just interesting to see what was special enough to some city way back when to warrant its own statue or monument.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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