History in this country is like tripping over a branch and finding it's bone.

Yeah. :(

Thank you for sharing these lovely pictures - the last one is so cool! and YAY for the brave little plant growing up through the concrete! do you have any idea if the space around it was pre-existent, or it just started growing on its own and someone cleared the circle of concrete around it to give it room to grow? - and I'm sorry things suck right now.