Columbus, Ohio was rebuilding.

Not dramatically — not with the visible, ambitious reconstruction of a city that had decided to reimagine itself. More with the quiet, stubborn persistence of a place that had taken significant damage and was addressing it practically, one building at a time, one block at a time, with the specific pragmatism of a midwestern city that had survived difficult winters for a hundred and fifty years and understood that survival was primarily a matter of continuing to show up.