Where is everyone from?

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: The O'Meara
Date: 24 May 03 - 12:02 PM

Born and spent childhood in San Angelo, TX.(swore I'd never again live anywhere where the temp. got above 70 F.)

High School and a couple years after in St. Paul, MN.(Culture shock!)

7 years in US Army, incl San Antonio, TX. (They heard about that 70 F business) Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, Ft. Lewis WA, (Near Tacoma,) side trips to Ft. Campell KY and Ft. Bragg, NC, lovely vacation in S.E. Asia, Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. and out.

Northern Virginia (Fairfax), 20 yrs in Wyoming, now in Denver suburb.

Never quite sure how to answer "Where you from?"

O'Meara

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: GUEST,SharonG
Date: 24 May 03 - 11:14 AM

I'm considered "semi-native" in Tucson, Arizona- (23 years in the "Old Pueblo") but grew up in southern California (Redlands) and Santa Cruz, CA for college.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: GUEST,Lidy
Date: 24 May 03 - 11:12 AM

Born in bred in Bucks, SE England. Which apparently has no decent music tradition to speak of. Luckily currently live in London. which has 6 million people and 2 good folk clubs. anyone else think that may be just a bit of a dodgy ratio?? and they aren't big folk clubs by any standards!

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 May 03 - 10:25 AM

Born in Quincy, Illinois a very long time ago. Raised and graduated from college there. Went to war from there -- stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri; Ft. Carson, Colorado; Camp Casey, Korea. Went to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb for some graduate school, left and moved to NE Ohio, worked in Burton, Ohio and graduated from Case Western Reserve University (MS in Library Science). More grad school at the U. of Akron (English, writing focus, they dropped the program and I dropped out). 16 years living in South Bend, Indiana and working in Elkhart, Indiana. Three years living and working in Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio. Now I'm in Pocatello, Idaho.

Visited: Ireland, Southern France, England, Scotland, Eastern and Western Canada, all of the US except for Hawaii, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 May 03 - 10:06 AM

Living in northern California. Born in southern California. Most of youth spent in central Texas. Fill in the corners with Japan, Pakistan, France, and Germany.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 24 May 03 - 05:45 AM

I am from Saltcoats, which is a town on the south west coast of Scotland, 30 miles from Glasgow.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:51 AM

Lairg, Sutherland, in the highlands of Scotland. Originally Glasgow born, but spent most of my life in West London & Surrey. Spent 15 years truck driving round Europe, mostly Italy and Greece, eventually got fed up living in a town where I couldn't even park outside my own front door, so came back to my roots. Decided to come up here rather than go back to Glasgow, 'cos I like trees, and I don't like football.
Giok
"Back hame in bonnie Scotland wi' ma ain folks"

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:39 AM

Since this thread is four years old I don't suppose the original posters are checking in, but for the record...

Dusterjim, are you really from Falls City, Oregon? I spent a couple of years there, 110 Main Street. (Falls City is a literal end-of-the-road town with about 350 people if you count the suburbs.) I rented a much too big house from a friend; wonderful place. I could fish the Little Luckiamute from the patio outside my bedroom.

Cap't Bob, my mother was born in Mio, back in 1904.

Margo, my brother's widow lives in Vancouver, in Orchards.

I'm from Oregon but I just celebrated my 15th anniversary of living in Juneau, Alaska.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Gurney
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:32 AM

Exactly so, Mousethief. We are all immigrants.
New Zealand, lately.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: mousethief
Date: 24 May 03 - 03:14 AM

Olduvai Gorge?

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 24 May 03 - 02:49 AM

Hull.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 03:54 PM

As the name suggests, I'm from Southeastern Colorado,USA. Fowler is just East of Pueblo.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Indy Lass
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 03:05 PM

I now live in Indianapolis, but I'm not really "from" anywhere. A brief description of my whereabouts tho': Conceived in Augsburg, Germany; spent some time in gestation coming across the Atlantic on ship (my poor mom); born in Monterey Calif., childhood in Oklahoma, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, grad. school in Ontario, Canada; then Wisconsin, Texas and now Indiana.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Mike Strobel
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 08:16 AM

Hi ! Mike Strobel checking in...........and I reside in Rochester, New York , U.S.A.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Dan Calder
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 06:09 AM

Springhill, Nova Scotia (Canada's Ocean Playground). Also hometown of Anne Murray.

Dan

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Rita64
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 04:30 AM

Banjer, I suppose I am a Pollyanna-ish sort, playing the "Glad Game".

I would hardly write this, though it is as true as my halcyon described above

A city of kebab shops, McDonalds and a Planet Hollywood
Mean streets of shame and broken people
A cruel division between the haves and have-nots

*sigh*

~FYM~ (hiding in the cupboard for fear of what is out there)

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Banjer
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 04:21 AM

I bet Fair Yougmaid works for their version of the Chamber of Commerce, or Tourist Information Agency!

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Rita64
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 01:37 AM

I live in a city...

Of impossibly blue skies and cotton wool ball clouds
Of golden sunsets reflecting on sparkling water and soldier straight skyscrapers
A sprawling city reaching the misty Blue Mountains

Sydney Australia

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Margo
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 12:08 AM

I'm currently living in Vancouver Washington, USA just across the Columbia river from Portland, Oregon.

Capt Bob: I was born in Adrian, Michigan. It's a beautiful state.

BSeed:I grew up in the East Bay, namely in Moraga, Walnut Creek, and Concord. You from around there?

Margarita

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: southern sonny aka j malone
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 06:55 PM

Jackson, TENN. (West Tenn 80 something miles E of Memphis.)

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Dan
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM

Good, one, Barbara.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Jenny
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:08 AM

Originally from City of London and born within the sound of the Bow Bells -which makes me a Cockney! Am now living in Cyprus ('cos the weather's nicer) with husband, teenage son, Poppy the cat and Skipper the budgerigar.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: dusterjim
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 05:07 AM

Hey JR, I would have never guessed. I quit my day job (so that means I now work nights, makes it hard to go jamin), I was just thinking about you this last weekend when playin some tunes with others, told them that if they ever ran into you to have you play "Leavin' Carolina". Hey people, this is one of those songs that are really good, put together by one of those people you never hear of, that few people ever get to hear. Good song JR

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Tom on Comfort
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 02:03 AM

Wow! Folks are from all over! I'm in St. Louis, smack dab in the middle of the USofA

--Tom

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 11:19 PM

...I'm in favor of a southeastern mudcatter's reunion. How about the Atlanta area?...harp

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:12 PM

I'm in Connecticut, but I think most people are in China.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Sumac
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:43 PM

I'm from a wee small centrally-isolated town north of Portland, Maine (the original Portland), but I'm sure I lived in Scotland in a former life.........

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Lowcountry
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 06:50 PM

In connection with another thread, I tried to identify Mudcatters from S.E. United States and got no takers except Dani, who thought a Mudcat gathering in Wrightsville Beach would be cool. Now I find out that Picker is from Stone Mt., Lloyd from Asheville, and Moonchild and Harpgirl are from N. Fla. I'm from Lexington, S.C. Watchasay let's organize a Southeastern U.S. Mudcatters folk stomp-down.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Fiona N
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 12:49 PM

Originally Leeds (Yorkshire, England) but now London, and soon to be just outside Reading, Berkshire...I crave trees and fields...

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: JR
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:35 AM

Hi Jim.... another addition of the small world department. I'm the one who wrote Leavin Carolina. Why haven't you been to Guthrie lately?

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: John of the Hill
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 09:21 PM

From atop a hill in southern Illinois, where the glaciers stopped short. As a child, I couldn't understand why Illinois was called the Prairie State. John

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: harpgirl
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 02:23 PM

hey picker, Stone Mountain is just up the road from the spring fed Santa Fe...Ginnie Springs is my preferred beginning point for river runs...harpgirl

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Llanfair
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 12:33 PM

A small house in a little town in Mid- Wales, UK. Weather is warm and sunny after a night of thunderstorms. In Britain, we don't have a climate, just weather. Bron.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: JOField
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 05:33 PM

75017 PARIS

France

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: emily rain
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 03:53 PM

bainbridge island, washington. stone's throw from seattle. : )

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 03:06 PM

A small house by a swift river in the Wilds o' Wyoming, with an actual antelope herd in the open prairie what passes for me' back yard. A mountain out the picture window out front, and weather as sweet and balmy as a body could wish for. KC

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Wotcha
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 11:52 AM

A hooch in Kuwait. And we've just sung our first shanties under the desert skies thanks to an interesting blend of expats from the UK, Canada, and Aussieland !!

cheers, Brian

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: picker (inactive)
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 10:29 AM

Hello harpgirl.....I'm a river lover myself. Maybe we will run into each other on the banks of the river someday..or night.....Mouth harp or string harp?

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 09:18 AM

"Everyone" of course is from "everywhere"!!!
But if you want to know where I am from, the answer is:
Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: harpgirl
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 07:36 AM

north florida flat piney woods...but my spirit spends an inordinate amount of time flying with the hawks and schooling with the river gar on the Santa Fe. Also you might see me running on the banks of that river under the moonlight! harpgirl

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: dusterjim
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 07:31 AM

Well, OK, Dusterjim is from Oregon, but I didn't count on creating a mystery as to who it is that guessed right (twice). So now who do I send the prize to?

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 03:13 AM

Hey, SingsIrish, what a small world! I'm an earthling, too, sub-species, human. Or maybe sub-human, 'cause I play banjo. I'm from across the bay from San Francisco (East Bay, not North Bay), the last half of my life, anyway. --seed

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 02:24 AM

I'll premise this by saying I'm still buzzing from downing (quite quickly) 2 delicious Rob Roys of a Friday evening, so be forewarned, I am a little off the wall and not myself...

I am from planet earth...but have been seen in Central New York--primarily the "Salt City"...have also ventured to southern points in the state as well...ie Binghamton (known to some as 5th-Hampton)...and Westchester County...most recently I've been experiencing The Bay area of California and now The San Fernando Valley region...that is when I am not mentally drifting to other places in the world...such as the UK and Ireland.

And I think you all can tell neither my day nor evening job is comedienne.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 01:15 AM

Mio, Michigan ~~ a small town, about the size of its name, in the northern part of the lower peninsula. I'm a ham radio operator with the call sign W8MIO.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: picker (inactive)
Date: 26 Jun 99 - 12:58 AM

Hey there catspaw49. I have a sister in Mayretta. I can see the mountain from the end of my street, and my office is in Snailville. Small world isn't it? And the internet has reduced it to a 17" monitor in my case.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Curtis & Loretta
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 11:38 PM

Minneapolis (The little apple) Minnesota is famous for a healthy mosquito crop, loons, and now for our leader. We were gone on tour, and when we came back we had a wrestler for a governor. Go figure...

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Helen
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 11:21 PM

Newcastle, Australia. 1.19pm, Saturday - wet & horrible - unseasonally awful for our usual winters which are mostly sunny and mild.

Helen

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: Winters Wages
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 10:02 PM

You are loud and clear here in Brisbane, California...Sister city to Brisbane Australia.

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 09:38 PM

A small house in a small town on the bank of the Erie Canal in the middle of New York State.

Don

Subject: RE: Where is everyone from?
From: bbelle
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 09:05 PM

Tallahassee, Florida, known locally as "Occupied Georgia." moonchild