american girl town

At CNN.com today, an article on the five-year renovation of Aurora, New York by the wealthy creator of American Girl dolls.

What does this kind of reconstruction say about our relationship to the past? Is there an past left after it has been so thoroughly "recreated"? 

See here.

Submitted by admin on 14 October, 2007 - 15:22.
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Aurora NY - a town too perfect?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 15 October, 2007 - 18:29.

For more on the ongoing story of Pleasant Rowland's "recreation" of the her fantasy of the past, see www.AuroraNY.org

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