Michele Feltman Strider on Nostr: You walk to the far wall of the station and wipe the dust off the display case with ...

You walk to the far wall of the station and wipe the dust off the display case with your sleeve.

Inside is a cavalcade of yellowing newspaper clippings, sepia-tone photos, and other similarly tinged memorabilia. The station, you deduce, was a popular stop for circus trains back in the era that was a thing. Suspenders and bloomers and lots of straw hats. Very Ken Burns.

You've never been to a circus, except the bendy-people ones in Vegas. Still, it's evocative.

The train signals time to board.