Berlin Kreuzberg Viktoriapark (#2172)

You hint at an aspect of the difference between the cultures of the American East and West Coasts that fascinates me, though it's only been in the last five or six years as I've explored the West that I've even understood that it exists. (I suspect both ends of the nation are oblivious to the differences between themselves and the people on the other end, and when they finally experience it they're dismayed.) But the Euro-American cultures in my part of the country are at least a century older than those in your part, and I think that extra century (or more, in the Northeast) affects the way we look at history in many subtle ways. I see this, and I think of a hill where I stood once in Boston.