LIANE HANSEN, host: Our memories help to define who we are. Some of us remember places that no longer exist. Your grandmother's house with a faint smell of mildew on the porch is now a McMansion. Gone is the dive bar where you saw your first punk band, and the quirky restaurant specializing in everything rabbit.</s>LIANE HANSEN, host: Unidentified Man: Across from the restaurant was an old softball field. And when we'd know there was going to be a softball game, we would drive up from Birmingham and get a bucket of rabbit livers, sit down on the bleachers and munch away on the rabbit livers. And that was a fantastic way to spend a spring afternoon.</s>LIANE HANSEN, host: This summer, WEEKEND EDITION is collaborating with some independent producers to launch the Place and Memory project. We'll feature stories about places we knew that are now long gone. There will be an online map pinpointing some of these spots. And we'd like your input - photos and reminiscences. Go to npr.org/soapbox to find out how to share your memory of a place you miss.
Participate in our summer project we're calling "Place and Memory," where we revisit places in our lives that had a particular hold on us but are now long gone.