[Tax-chick]

In a few of them you are quite literally listening to gossip many centuries old.

That's what the owner of the craft studio in Columbia, Missouri, said.

[sionnsar]

I'll confirm that. We have their names and what they did (or not), but usually no other information and no idea who they were nor what happened to them.

Sort of reminds one of the graffiti found on the walls of Pompeii.