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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 15:47:55 GMT -5
This was for a laugh. If you're wondering where my screen name comes from, or even if you don't care, I selected this by the old game of how to come up with your porn star name. You take the name of the pet you had growing up and add it to the name of the street you grew up on. We had a golden retriever named Winky that I had from the time I was 9 until she died right before my Mom did when I was 22. I grew up on Chapin St.
I may keep this or revert back to plain old Andromeda.
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Post by donalgdon on Jan 31, 2016 15:48:51 GMT -5
I like it.  I guess mine would be Flower Chase. Sounds like a real hippie porn star name. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 15:59:41 GMT -5
I like it. I guess mine would be Flower Chase. Sounds like a real hippie porn star name. I like yours too....It does sound like a Hippie name. For you history buffs. Chapin St. in Canandaigua NY, where I lived and still live (though not on that street anymore) was a semi-famous US General. trees.ancestry.com/view/Military.aspx?pid=1246192032&vid=eb8c0d52-23d6-49cd-8565-aeb4656e4e41&tid=11384089General Israel Chapin Born: 4 Dec 1740, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Died: 7 Mar 1795, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, United States General Israel Chapin was a Revolutionary War soldier and an Indian Agent under George Washington. A most illustrious man. General Chapin played an important part in the early history of Western New York. He had served as Captain of the Hatfield Militia at Boston and Lexington, as major in the expedition to Saratoga, as Colonel of the Second Regiment of Hampshire County Militia and finally after the Campaign against Quebec as Brigadier General. The return of peace brought him fresh activities for as a member of the party consummating the famous Phelps and Gorham purchase in 1789, he joined the settlement at the foot of Lake Canangaigua. He was chosen by Secretary of War Knox as a go-between to the difficult Six Nations. He became both the protector of the white settlers from Indian depredations and the protector of the Red Man against the white injustice. The irony is that he was born in the same place my Mother was! |
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Post by donalgdon on Jan 31, 2016 16:04:21 GMT -5
The house I grew up in is burned to the ground and an empty plot stands there today. The street itself is in one of the poorest areas of the city that was, at one time, a working-class Polish neighborhood.
I don't have many good memories of living there, and I used to visit the area as I got older.
The phrase, "You can't go home again" never made much sense to me until I got older and realized what it was all about.
I've been a fan of military history for a long time.
Cool backstory on your street!
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