Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This past weekend (long weekend) I visited Potsdam University just outside Berlin Germany. Watching the building of the Ravenel Bridge and now the unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges has been a delight but also has opened my eyes to building and unbuilding in other political settings. With my curious eyes open, I spent Saturday with my friend touching a part of history that I had only read about or seen on television.

It turned out that coming to Berlin for the first time was difficult - and brought back memories from 15 years ago. In November of 1989, a German colleague was visiting me at Duke and he I were talking and discussing the impact of trainloads of East Europeans migrating through Hungary into Germany. I asked if he thought the Berlin wall would ever come down and his immediate answer was "not in my life". That evening, on the 6:30 news, we watched the impossible - the first cracks on the Berlin wall.