"Ironically, to the modern mind, the whole fair seems a wondrous and practically inconceivable 'folly,' something I think people today unconsciously hunger for, though they might not be willing to admit it," Ware continues. "The scale and expenditure that went into the 1893 Exposition is really only matched today by Hollywood blockbuster movies, and is just about as transitory, but there's still something so much more reassuring, dignified and hopeful about it being a real place to visit and encounter rather than simply a brief flickering of colored shadows on a screen."

# posted by Gerry Canavan @ 6:15 PM  |