Students walk in line on their way to school on the first day in their new building at Frederick Douglass Head Start Center, which replaces a Head Start building destroyed in the 2010 flood in East Nashville, Tenn. February 10, 2014
On the first day in the new classrooms, everyone gravitated toward the big windows - the preschoolers, the teachers, and even the mayor.
Peering through the floor-to-ceiling glass panes, 4-year-olds with blue plastic binoculars looked for birds outside of the Frederick Douglass Head Start center.
The touring city officials, meanwhile, could see where the center used to stand, a few hundred feet to the east, before floodwaters destroyed it in 2010. Water rose to 12 feet in the previous building, overturning desks, hanging chairs from the ceiling and leaving crayons floating in brown ...