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Turn of the century

I'm afraid I'm still living in the last century. Yesterday, we were showing our family quilts to some friends, and I explained that one of them had survived a flood with my grandmother "in '97." Without stopping to calculate the probable timeline of my family, our friend responded, "1897?" Of course, I'd meant 1997.

Then, this morning, I was composing in my head a blog post about a book I'm reading. It takes place in 'turn-of-the-century Buffalo, NY,' I thought. To me, I realized, 'turn of the century' refers to the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. I'm not sure that's true with everyone. Maybe I'm just getting old...

Posted by Stan Taylor on June 13, 2005 04:25 PM
Categories: Intellectual