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Disclaimer: "ancient" = "surveyed in the 1790s" Edit: For some reason, I was hoping for a catalog of American Indian trails. Otherwise, pretty interesting arti

Disclaimer: "ancient" = "surveyed in the 1790s" Edit: For some reason, I was hoping for a catalog of American Indian trails. Otherwise, pretty interesting article.

dang 11y ago
Ok, we'll s/ancient/old/.
astrodust 11y ago
Same! Reminds me of the old adage: "Americans need to learn a hundred years is not a long time just like Europeans need to learn a hundred miles is not a long distance."
- ceejayoz 11y ago
  I have family in Switzerland who, IIRC, are living in a ~700 year old farm house that doesn't qualify as historic because it's not old enough (too many other similarly old farm houses for it to be considered rare enough to protect). Meanwhile, my parents considered an "historic" house in Ohio from around 1900.
  - repiret 11y ago
    I once heard that while in the United States, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
    - ceejayoz 11y ago
      Maybe you heard it in the comment I was replying to?
    - lovemenot 11y ago
      And in HN comments, a hundred milliseconds is a long time.
  - thaumasiotes 11y ago
    Does this farm house have electricity? Running water? A foundation? How old is the oldest component? Is it like the Ship of Theseus?
    - ceejayoz 11y ago
      Yeah, they're all a bit Ship of Theseus - giant wood beams, thick stone walls, but many generations worth of interior upgrades.
  - astrodust 11y ago
    Probably lucky it's not considered historic. One man's quest to install a toilet leads to a bizarre world of archeology: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-...
benbreen 11y ago
If the term "ancient roads" actually appears in the historical documents related to this (not sure if it does or not), it could say more about Vermont's Francophone past than anything else. In French it would be appropriate to call these "ancient roads" (anciennes rues) in the sense that they're "old" or "former" roads, like how ancién regime just means "former regime."

Disclaimer: "ancient" = "surveyed in the 1790s" Edit: For some reason, I was hoping for a catalog of American Indian trails. Otherwise, pretty interesting article.

dang 11y ago

Ok, we'll s/ancient/old/.

astrodust 11y ago

Same! Reminds me of the old adage: "Americans need to learn a hundred years is not a long time just like Europeans need to learn a hundred miles is not a long distance."

ceejayoz 11y ago
I have family in Switzerland who, IIRC, are living in a ~700 year old farm house that doesn't qualify as historic because it's not old enough (too many other similarly old farm houses for it to be considered rare enough to protect). Meanwhile, my parents considered an "historic" house in Ohio from around 1900.
- repiret 11y ago
  I once heard that while in the United States, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
  - ceejayoz 11y ago
    Maybe you heard it in the comment I was replying to?
  - lovemenot 11y ago
    And in HN comments, a hundred milliseconds is a long time.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago
  Does this farm house have electricity? Running water? A foundation? How old is the oldest component? Is it like the Ship of Theseus?
  - ceejayoz 11y ago
    Yeah, they're all a bit Ship of Theseus - giant wood beams, thick stone walls, but many generations worth of interior upgrades.
- astrodust 11y ago
  Probably lucky it's not considered historic. One man's quest to install a toilet leads to a bizarre world of archeology: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-...

benbreen 11y ago

If the term "ancient roads" actually appears in the historical documents related to this (not sure if it does or not), it could say more about Vermont's Francophone past than anything else. In French it would be appropriate to call these "ancient roads" (anciennes rues) in the sense that they're "old" or "former" roads, like how ancién regime just means "former regime."