Posted on 12/05/2012 4:55:07 PM PST by Uncle Chip
“.....employed a team of Polish builders to renovate.....”
Key word: Polish.
In the 1970’s Steve Martin wrote a short story about a similar occurrence.
It seems a Mr. Rivers was New York City crane operator for a demolition company. He was sent to France for a special job. He started work, and due to a poorly drawn map, began the demolition of the Cathedral at Chatres.
He knocked out all of the stained glass and a couple of the walls of the structure.
He was sent back home immediately, and upon his return, went to the library and opened up books on the Cathedral and read about it. He thought to himself how lucky he was to have seen it before it was destroyed.
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