And the original hangs in the town hall of my birth town (I’m not there now) which also
built the first ship of the American Navy, the Hannah,
supplied Col. John Glover and his Mariners who rowed Washington’s army across the Delaware River to defeat the Hessians on Christmas Eve in Trenton, (why we don’t speak British and drive on the wrong side of the road today) (rent The Crossing, with Bill Paxton as Washington to see all about it),
supplied Elbridge Gerry (with a hard “G”, 4th vice president, the originator of gerrymandering (with a hard “g”, please), i.e., the drawing of boundaries of geographical areas to include/exclude certain numbers (or types?) of voters-his resembled a salamander,
current home of Kyle Hamilton, biker in the Athens Olympics
Sam Shepherd might have killed his wife Marilyn in Bay Village, Ohio.
Famous case that The Fugitive was loosely based on.
I think he may have been involved, but I don’t think he did it because there was blood in the house that was not his or his wife’s.
A few years ago the house was torn down and rebuilt. The old house was usually for rent and no one wanted to live there. The thing is, it’s right on the lake so is prime property.
So when you drive people by to see the house it really doesn’t matter because it’s not the same house.
Some guy named Churchill once gave a speech about some kind of Iron Curtain at one of the colleges here in my hometown.
Speaking of Churchill, we are also the proud owners of a sculpture made from a chunk of the Berlin wall and sculpted by Churchill’s granddaughter.
Also the birthplace of Henry Bellaman, author of King’s Row. Later made into a movie (and a very good one, IMHO) starring Ronald Reagan, in which he got to scream, “WHERE’S THE REST OF ME?!?”
Affectionately known to its inhabitants as “F***ed Up Little Town On Narcotics.”
With the construction on 75 between Cleveland and Chattanooga? The last time I drove between Knoxville/Atlanta and back again, I still took the shortcut through Cleveland. The lights and traffic can slow you down a little - but depending on the time of day, you can still sometimes do better going through Cleveland.
Where I live now - The Wimbledon Tennis Championships (no they’re not in Wimbledon) and Wombles.
Where I grew up: Capital of England prior to London,
Home of Winchester Cathedral (which just stood there and watched as my baby left town).
Home of King Arthur’s round table;
Home of one of Britain’s best schools (where I went and was in the same year and house as Joss Weedon - who went on to create Buffy the Vampire slayer, but he was still “joe the yank” back then.)
The Curtiss candy family owned the property adjacent to mine. They had a fabulous place, but it was abandoned quite some time ago. Teenagers turned it into a make-out party place, and eventually everything was bulldozed so the tree people could turn it into a forest preserve. Before the place was trashed, I dated a guy who took me to a party there (the Curtiss people had already sold the house). It was a very cool place, with French doors that opened over a stream ( :eek: ). I’m glad the tree people saved the area. I don’t want any neighbors.
We are of course the capital city.
We had the hostage crisis at SUNY Albany several years ago.
All the politicians come here at least for a little while during campaign season.
We have Empire Plaza, the most esoteric and unusual piece of construciton around.
And we have Albany International Airport which isn’t International.
Oh, and we have Pepsi Arena the most annoying traffic jam around.
