What makes a certain place live on in our memory? Memories in general live on because of our human cognitive ability. Our cognitive ability helps us recall and retain knowledge from our experiences. When something significant happens in a certain place, it makes the memory. The sadness, happiness, all the anger we felt in that moment/memory will always come back.
The poem “In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum” by Roberta Hills shows a sense of memory and nostalgia for a place. “I wanted your wide door, your mottled air of bark and working sunlight, wanted your smoke hole with its stars” “I'll hide your ridgepole in my spine” These quotes from the poem show the closeness with the place and them. The memory of the fire of what happened there will
