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Thread #7033   Message #41920
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Oct-98 - 01:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Far from Their Home (A Song of Grosse Ile
Subject: RE: Transl: please, from a French Canadian
Thanks, Jack - we Detroiters can be a bit provincial, and forget there may be other places that use place names we think of as our own. French place names seem to have been used over and over again. I believe there are two places in Michigan (and one in Pennsylvania) called Presque Isle (which I understand means something like "not quite an island - referring to narrow peninsulas on Lake Erie, Huron, and Michigan).
-Joe Offer-