[Magdalen] Music memories

[Lynn Ronkainen]

a toffy school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan / USA also Lesley.

Lynn

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From: "Lesley de Voil" <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 7:55 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Music memories

> And Cranbrook not only a place, but also a rather toffy Public(i.e. 
> private)  School in Oz.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎24/‎12/‎2014 10:11
> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Music memories
>
> 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
>> 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
>>