Where Old Bricks Go

For years, I have delighted in finding the debris of old buildings resurfacing along the shores of a local river like the remnants of some lost civilization. Over a century ago, the river was reengineered to change the course of the stream as part of a restoration project. Buildings along the river were demolished to create parkland, and the building materials from the demolition was used for fill to build up the new riverbanks. A hundred years of erosion is now bringing the broken bits of those old buildings back to light.