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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 239074, member: 25"]<i>I think part of it is that America simply isn't that old</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This was something that puzzled me when I was visiting American relatives when I was 14. Why did they think mid 19th C was old when my school was partly 16th C. and the local village church was largely 12th C. and no one seemed to consider them all that special. I hope I was polite enough not to point this out. There was plenty of interest that did not need to be old, so all good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 239074, member: 25"][I]I think part of it is that America simply isn't that old[/I] This was something that puzzled me when I was visiting American relatives when I was 14. Why did they think mid 19th C was old when my school was partly 16th C. and the local village church was largely 12th C. and no one seemed to consider them all that special. I hope I was polite enough not to point this out. There was plenty of interest that did not need to be old, so all good.[/QUOTE]
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