This is Graham Street looking west, one block from where my father's house stood. The parking lot where the school stood is to the left. The street used to go through here. The University has expanded their campus and built a new library. Where you see the new library surrounded by open space used to be two square blocks of one and two story homes that were on my oldest brother's paper route. Dan and I frequently helped Steve deliver papers to those homes.

It's not that I begrudge the University their beautiful new library. Not at all. But where people new to the neighborhood see a nice building surrounded by grass and trees, I hear a little boy's footsteps, heavy with newpapers, splashing in the cold November rain.