The owner of a Nova Scotia daycare destroyed as recent wildfires ripped through the province says the flames consumed both her livelihood and a physical piece of twentieth-century history.
Among the many memories and treasured family heirlooms lost in the fire that raced through suburban Halifax was a piece of the Berlin Wall belonging to Terri and Lutz Kottwitz. Most of the couple’s belongings were destroyed when wildfires levelled their home in Hammonds Plains, as well as the neighbouring ForestKids Early Learning Centre daycare owned by Terri Kottwitz.
“Someone said that it’s not going to look like the rest of the ashes so maybe we’ll still find it,” Terri Kottwitz said of the chunk of wall in a telephone interview. “But that’s an awful lot of looking through those ashes to find a little piece of the wall.”…