Updated 3/4/2021 8:52 AM
Change is a powerful concept that can deliver a devastating demise or provide promising progress -- or both. During the losses and growth of this pandemic, we've made rewarding connections online and in bubbles, and we've lost loved ones, seen jobs and businesses disappear, canceled vacations, and been forced to forgo funerals, weddings and graduations.
As history plugs along, with change as its eternal passenger, we often gaze at the rearview mirror.
"Throughout history, in times of stress and challenges, it's human nature to look back on the past as a place of solace, a place where you can step away from the challenges," says Dan Schoeneberg, museum administrator for the Arlington Heights Historical Museum. "You compound that with COVID and a global pandemic we haven't seen in a century."