Notre Dame: a poem

Five years after a fire ravaged our lady

Notre Dame in 1991. Photo by Julie S. Paschold

Five years ago, there was a fire that ravaged and damaged much of Paris, France’s Notre Dame cathedral. I visited this landmark in 1991 when I was a Girl Scout in high school. One of the photos I took is shown above, before the damage. The remediation and recovery of the cathedral after the fire was documented by National Geographic a couple years after the fire…