sign of the times
We're winding down our time in Pennsylvania. Happily beginning the return home to Charlottesville, Virginia.
We've been living in a college town since 2004, and a different Pennsylvania college town the year before that. In our current town, all the streets are named for colleges and universities. We live on the corner of Dartmouth and Princeton.
When we got here, there was a grocery co-op down the block that had been here since the 1930s. Shortly after we got here, they built a new building nextdoor and moved themselves into it. Then they tore their old building down. Then they cleared the rubble, and now they've built a new road where the old building used to be. If tradition is honored, the new road should have a collegiate name.
Today the new road is done. We approached it on our way back from our evening walk. And what, to my horror, did the street sign say?
Oh, my. Yet another tribute to the Cult of the Great Centralizer?!
Maybe we're getting out just in time.
But no, wait. Read the fine print. It's not named after the American Tyrant.
It's "Named in honor of Lincoln University".
Tradition, um, wins?
Well, I take a perverse pleasure just in the fact that the sign makes it clear that the street is not named for the man.
It's as if the Washington Redskins had small print on their helmets that said, "Named for the city, not the president."
We've been living in a college town since 2004, and a different Pennsylvania college town the year before that. In our current town, all the streets are named for colleges and universities. We live on the corner of Dartmouth and Princeton.
When we got here, there was a grocery co-op down the block that had been here since the 1930s. Shortly after we got here, they built a new building nextdoor and moved themselves into it. Then they tore their old building down. Then they cleared the rubble, and now they've built a new road where the old building used to be. If tradition is honored, the new road should have a collegiate name.
Today the new road is done. We approached it on our way back from our evening walk. And what, to my horror, did the street sign say?
Oh, my. Yet another tribute to the Cult of the Great Centralizer?!
Maybe we're getting out just in time.
But no, wait. Read the fine print. It's not named after the American Tyrant.It's "Named in honor of Lincoln University".
Tradition, um, wins?
Well, I take a perverse pleasure just in the fact that the sign makes it clear that the street is not named for the man.
It's as if the Washington Redskins had small print on their helmets that said, "Named for the city, not the president."
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Pray tell, in whose honor is the university named?
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