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[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay, I knew you meant the one in AL, and I thought Roger did, too, referring to his trips to the States.

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was talking about the one in Alabama. I believe Roger was talking about
> the English one, which has a pretty incomprehensible accent.
> 
>> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you're talking about the one in Alabama, Roger, I have to say that
>> that's on my list of places to visit...probably next year on the 50th
>> anniversary of Jonathan Daniels' martyrdom, for that's what it was. I think
>> for us in the States it's very important to connect with that part of our
>> history, because we are still living with the results of it.
>> 
>>>> On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, there's also the *other* Birmingham here, which is in Alabama. It
>> has
>>> a quite different reputation.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Roger Stokes <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com <javascript:;>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 23/12/2014 20:27, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was interesting dealing with the Birmingham stereotype when I was on
>>>>> college and then when I applied for my first job in Flint, because I
>> was
>>>>> totally unaware that it even existed. My dad was military, and I had
>> spent
>>>>> high school in Germany. My parents had bought the house in B'ham when
>> I was
>>>>> in Junior high, and that was what allowed me in-state tuition. But I
>>>>> learned in college and later that people made certain assumptions
>> about me,
>>>>> and I started saying, "Well, my parents live in Birmingham..."
>>>> 
>>>> One of the delights of this international list is the use of place names
>>>> that have a different connotation this side of the pond. Birmingham over
>>>> here has an accent that is fairly impenetrable. Cranbrook is a rather
>>>> desirable area of Kent.
>>>> 
>>>> Roger
>>