Once, back at the dawn of time, there were some developers who sought to bring a veritable Renaissance to downtown Fayetteville by building a lovely hotel.

Mighty cosmic forces strove against them, however, and the hoped for Renaissance never came to pass. Instead, the Ye Old Mountain Inn was paved over, and a parking lot was put in place over what came to be known in certain cynical circles as “Fayetteville’s Big Dig.”

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Today, we no longer think of our lost Renaissance, of our Lost Innocence. Today, in 2015, we have a parking lot which sits next to a structure that Night of the Living Dead director George Romero might very well appreciate.

We paint over sewer drains, and yet we leave Fayetteville’s Zombie Inn intact – a building which almost literally cries out for, if not a mural, at least a troop of Boy Scouts wishing to earn a few merit badges.

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And as these pictures will show, almost any destination around the Square will bring you in contact with the Zombie Inn.

I finally read the instructions on how to post pictures to my blog.

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