1860s Quotes

“At the door, I tried one last question: Was it strange, in this day and age, to be sequestered inside a shrine to the 1860s? The woman glanced over her shoulder and whispered, “Strange isn’t the word. Time warp’s more like it.” A recent migrant from New England, the woman had answered an ad in the paper for museum work. There was no mention of the UDC. “I think the only reason they hired me is because my family’s Southern Baptist.” She’d been in culture shock ever since. “Up North the War’s over. Not like here.” She smiled thinly, shut the heavy glass door, and withdrew into her cloister.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War