Well, it really ticks me off that although I call Wisconsin home, I can't be considered a true Wisconsinite since I didn't move there until I was ten. The "Lovely Agnes" song seems backwards to me, since I left the city life of Detroit to live near the cows and the truck farms on the western shore of Lake Michigan. It was a good place to grow up. The strawberries and sweet corn were terrific. I think "Lovely Agnes" and "Edmund Fitzgerald" are nice enough, but I believe the Great Lakes deserve better songs than those. An area so remarkable deserves songs that are remarkable.
I guess I have to confess to being a "true Californian," since most Californians are like me and weren't born here. I've lived in California since 1973, but I still don't quite feel like it's home.
-Joe Offer-