11.   And part of it is that our phones and faxes and modems make place seem less and less relevant.

12.   And the place seems to have a tremendous hold on the industry.

13.   And the place always seemed quiet, except when we were bombarded with manufactured noise.

14.   At daybreak, the place seems ghostly until squatters lift themselves from the wreckage they use as nightly shelter.

15.   At their closest borders, the city of Canton and Jackson Township are less than a mile apart, and neither place seems complete without the other.

16.   But even on a so-called ordinary day the place seems to hover on the verge of chaos.

17.   But here, young and old alike embrace a place where time seems to stop from the beginning of July to the end of August.

18.   Could those places have seemed so inviting because so many of the sporting crowd had nowhere else to go?

19.   Filled with marble floors and walls, the place seems fairly sterile.

20.   For the families, the place seems to work on the principle that misery loves company.