Old Is The New New

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• 1 Foxtown // Dec 18, 2007 at 8:55 am

  The amount of corporate and mercantile history in this otherwise sleepy and currently insignificant city is astounding. Also the name is pretty cool.

  I grew up there BTW, and coupled with the my town (Niskayuna) I used up all of my spelling brain cells.

• 2 Rob // Dec 18, 2007 at 9:05 am

  I did not know that.

  I am very warmly inclined towards upstate and western New York, the whole Erie Canal corridor. I don’t know if it’s because of my Buffalo housemates, or all the time I’ve spent driving I-90, or the evident similarities to southern Ontario, or the musical names–Schenectady, Utica, Herkimer, Cheektowaga. I want to make a D&D fantasy world using only place names from upstate and western New York.

• 3 Foxtown // Dec 18, 2007 at 3:41 pm

  The funny thing is that people would so not notice, since you could also use:
  Polad, Russia, Troy, Mount Vernon, Rochester, Alexander, Alexandria Bay, Argyle, Attica, Babylon, Boonville, Canajoharie, Cleveland, Cuba, Delhi, Fishkill, Fultonville, Homer, Jordan, Naples, Nassau, Oswego, Ossian, Pleasant Valley, Rockland, etc…

  Some of these I remember from driving through Upstate a lot as a kid and some just sound neat.

  Also I ran into this interesting site while checking my facts verses my memory:
  http://yorkstaters.blogspot.com/2006/01/whats-in-name-no2-origins-of-classical.html

• 4 Adam // Dec 21, 2007 at 10:15 am

  Old, weird Pangaea. 1/4 billion yrs ago, all land forming a supercontinent, would have been plenty old, and plenty weird.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

• 5 Long Island Divorce Lawyers // Feb 11, 2008 at 7:20 am

  Hey Foxtown… I also remember being a back seat passenger as we travelled around and saw all these names. Cuba? as a kid I was confised in geography class Ted http://nassaucountydivorcelawyers.com

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