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Reader imagines the future

| July 20, 2012 6:00 AM

The year is 2052, the date, July 4. I'm sitting, leaning against a permanently padlocked middle-school watching a parade pick its way through the rubble of a torn-up street that goes beneath a bridge that's been closed for some time, too dangerous, I'm told, to move any type of commerce over.

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