My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings , is to: 1)  What geographic and community places matter to you?  2)  Pick one place (building, village, town, city, county, state/province) and describe your connection to it and why it matters. Here's mine: I could not think of an ancestral place that matters to me. My families were always on the move and didn’t stay in one spot more than a generation or two. However, I have a spot that matters to me. It’s the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. This structure with Corinthian columns, arches, sculptures, and the Greco-Roman rotunda, was created for the 1915 World’s Fair. California architect Bernard Maybeck designed it. It was supposed to be torn down after the fair like the other buildings but is the only structure from the fair that survives. Because it was meant to be temporary, it became in disrepair. In 1964 ...