Rome is falling! Again!

A NYT article on how Rome is abusing its monuments... Timely, since we in NC have started to lose some of our own through neglect. And yet, there's an exhibit on at the NC History Museum about a black artisan named Thomas Day. This man worked for the great and the good before the Civil War AND made a good living at it AND was respected in the community--enough that they bought his shop when he went bankrupt--but they only have gotten around to restoring his shop and collecting some of his work now.