For many, it’s easy to go through the motions of daily Bushwick life. You walk down the same streets you always do, go to that same cafe, restaurant, bar or deli, and don’t think for a moment about Bushwick history — what was there before. Like how did this flourishing community come out of the miles of farmland here in the 1600s? What groups of people have come in and out of this neighborhood we call home? There’s so much to focus on in our daily lives, the past can seem unimportant. But in neighborhoods like Bushwick and Ridgewood, whether we know it or not, the past lingers around every street corner.