Cynthia Parks stays in touch with stationery bequeathed by the Floridan Hotel. A generation knows the Mayflower only as a boat. George Washington as but the Father of his Country. Roosevelt as a couple of presidents. Seminole as someone who plays for Florida State.
Nobody remembers Carling as anything but beer and ale, but nobody ever knew who Carling was anyway.
At year's end, it is hail and farewell. Recalling the past and the vanished familiar. Perhaps it always has been so. Indeed, even long ago the Queen City begat the Gateway City. Which became the Bold New City of the South.