David: Mount Bozeman Seems Smaller

David Townsend: On Facebook (and with his permission to print this), David Townsend of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library writes of a trip to his old hometown, Bozeman, Mont.: ” From where I am sitting at the Bozeman library I can see the ‘huge’ hill that I used to sled on. Only now it looks about a third the size it used to. Matter of fact, the whole park looks smaller. My gawd, my hometown is shrinking.”

Question: Have you ever had a similar experience as David — returning to your hometown to discover that some of the magical things of your youth are smaller than you imagined? Or simply more ordinary than you imagined?