HEREVER BETSY goes, she imagines the past. Whether she is in her hometown neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, or in front of her new/old second home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she thinks about the people who once lived there. “I’m fascinated when standing on any street, particularly a historic one, and start imagining all those who had been here and how recently the whole population was a different population. None of the people walking by were alive a hundred years go,” she says, as she pauses in
