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And So It Begins

by eliz on March 13, 2010

If you’re looking for a good time in the trainwreck vein, go to UrbanBaby between fall and March, having selected the “NY Schools” setting. There you will see the hysteria that is private school admissions play out, and in addition to providing quality entertainment, it serves to prove true most of the plot of “The [...]

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46 19th-Century Occupations That Now Double As Names for the Progeny of Upwardly Mobile Parents (Or Just Sound Like They Are)

by eliz on March 8, 2010

Taylor
Hunter
Cooper
Miller
Tanner
Walker
Ranger
Saylor
Porter
Ryder
Carver
Falconer
Mariner
Tucker
Harper
Thayer
Usher
Granger
Turner
Potter
Decker
Sawyer
Fletcher
Schuyler
Trevor
Skipper
Hollister
Conner
Bonner
Gardner
Miner
Asher
Mercer
Brewer
Warner
Oliver
Mayer
Keller
Lawler
Roger
Saddler
Mather
Proctor
River
Smythe
Smith

Read the day’s other lists over at Anna’s:

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Sartorial Concessions to the South: The Christmas Socks

by eliz on December 2, 2009

I never saw a little girl in a bishop dress until I moved here.
They’re just not worn in the North. No one puts their boys in John-Johns, either. I was unaware that those were even manufactured after 1963.

Upstate New York, where I’m from, is too steeped in its ethnic and working-class roots for that sort [...]

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