"From away"; I have never heard that. But then I am guessing that you don't hear people say "Uff da" very often.
It's an odd phenomenon that the transition from railroads--and in some ways, the success of the railroads themselves--seems to have fragmented the country into regions rather than into points on a line. I've been reading a lot of local history recently, and when St. Paul was the terminus for the railroads it was a boomtown; when that went bust, it never really recovered its national cachet. Which is kind of adjacent to what you were saying, but I like to ramble.
You will be pleased to know that, north of Madison, there are even hills :-)
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Date: 2008-07-02 11:37 pm (UTC)It's an odd phenomenon that the transition from railroads--and in some ways, the success of the railroads themselves--seems to have fragmented the country into regions rather than into points on a line. I've been reading a lot of local history recently, and when St. Paul was the terminus for the railroads it was a boomtown; when that went bust, it never really recovered its national cachet. Which is kind of adjacent to what you were saying, but I like to ramble.
You will be pleased to know that, north of Madison, there are even hills :-)