Whether you grew up in a big city or a small town, if you moved away and then went back to visit, years later, everything had probably changed.  
It probably triggered a kind of nostalgia that both made everything old new again, and at the same time reminded us that often the best way to go home again, is really in our imagination.
For Avery Corman, returning to the Bronx was not just an exercise in nostalgia, it was also a look at how the world and all of us have changed over the past half century. Corman details he experiences in My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
My conversation with Avery Corman:

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