As in the ancient days all roads led to Rome, so in this year of grace, and in this glorious month of June, all roads lead back to the old home; to the hearthstones around which cling the tender memories of childhood, and of loved ones gone--to the little mounds where sleep the ashes of ancestral dead.
Stevenson draws a parallel between ancient Rome and the return to one's roots in McLean County.
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