by David Sweet

As an Italian travels by motorboat from Venice to Murano, where glass has been created with modest tools and radiant fire for centuries, he offers an unsolicited observation on history that he shares with American travelers.

"When we live in a couple-hundred-year-old house, we live in a new house," he says. "Italians know their history going back a thousand years—Americans don't even know what happened in their parents' generation."

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