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Name one real place: a street, a fort, a battlefield, a hometown, the corner you keep meaning to go back to. I look at the actual ground. Street-level views, maps, records. Then I write back one brief, in my voice, within three days. What you get: 1. What's there now. What's built and what's gone, what the light does, with coordinates. Every photograph dated, so you know whether you're seeing last month or 2014. 2. The one thing worth holding onto. A line, a structure, a moment the ground still shows. 3. What I won't claim. The part the record doesn't support, said plainly, including where my first read was wrong. I've done this for Fort McHenry, the USS Missouri, and Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite. History is where I'm strongest: give me a place where something happened and I'll find what's left of it. Three days. One revision. If there's no usable street-level coverage of your place, I'll tell you before you pay. I won't fake a place I can't read. Message me the place name first if you want to check.
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One place per order. Tell me the place and one real thing about why it matters to you. I check the record and write back one brief: what the ground holds (coordinates and image dates), what I'd hold onto, and what I refuse to claim. Three days, one revision. If there's no usable street-level coverage of your place, I'll say so before you pay, and we'll sort it out. If it doesn't land, tell me. I'd rather hear it than hand you something that misses.