According to the signage on John Brown's Fort, the much-traveled and much-reconstructed building now sits within 150 feet of its original site. This news disorients a visitor in history, rather than orienting one: where, then, in the ostensibly preserved little downtown of the National Historical Park, with its fake bakery bread in the fake-bakery window, is the place where the history happened? Why isn't the building where it was? What accounts for the difference?
(Not shown: child running fully clothed into the shallows of the mingling waters of the Potomac and Shenandoah.)
