I had mentioned to him when I was very young that my father was employed documenting, cleaning and preserving artifacts from Jamestown and Yorktown. There were Colonial, Revolutionary War and Civil War artifacts. I told him that when I was young I thought that these were ancient history, but tourists from Europe set me straight. They had buildings on their streets that were hundreds and hundreds of years older than the clay pipes, and metal bits my father dealt with. My neighbor talked at length about these shows.

Many years later I would travel to South Wales regularly for work. On the ride from Heathrow to Cwmbran, I'd gaze out on the green fields and ponder the millennia that crops had been grown in these fields thinking of the stories of good times and bad that they could tell.

I think I'll be watching some of these episodes. Thank you for reminding me.