I was born in Sarasota, in the State of Florida, on the North American continent, of basically Scots-Irish, English, Welsh, and German stock which arrived here 200 years earlier. I am, therefore, a native Scots-Irish-English-Welsh-German-American -- with, we think, maybe a dash of Cherokee. Of greater import to me is that my great-grandfather was a locomotive engineer, my grandfather was a railroad telegrapher, my father was a travelling man, and I grew up along the Erie. I still remember the difficulty I had, at the age of five, in convincing my father that what I had seen from my day camp in Allendale was a 2-8-4, not a 4-8-2: his roots were in the Piedmont Region and he knew more about the Southern than the Erie; he had to see it to believe it. The Berks were no more than 10 years old. Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- Paul, after working on a project that involved the North American Indian Council of Boston, and having them constantly refer to themselves as "Indians," I have no compunction about using the term "Indian." Furthermore, after asking them about the occasional dust-up about the Cleveland Indians, and the Washington Redskins, I have no trouble with those either. I'm about as left-ish as anybody you're going to find (Massachusetts is nearly liberal enough for me), and I am very careful about "women" vs "girls," and so on, but when REAL American Indians don't take offense, I don't see why I should either. SGL The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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