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“We usually think of memory in terms of time. We think of it as consumed with the past. Memory is the revitalization of some moment or moments of the past, collecting those moments into the present again. But in so closely associating memory with the past and temporality, we frequently overlook the equally fundamental connections between memory and place. It is not a far stretch to understand that memory is always implaced. A simple thought experiment will point out that it is impossible to remember an event from one’s own past without realizing that the event happened in a place however hazy the memory of that place might be. Experience is implaced; memory likewise is implaced.”