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Easter Egg


h1 April 16th, 2006

Have you noticed that if you mouse over the girl on the left in the masthead the sun comes out?



One comment to “Easter Egg”

  1. Love the sun - and love this blog. The East / West concept is fascinating and provocative. We seem to all be pulled by our roots even as we move forward. I guess that creates a healthy tension - balance even. East and West are relative. Jess’s great-grandparents, like her, moved West. Only in their case it was to Connecticut via France and Italy, not CA via Chicago. Unlike them, she is not an “immigrant” After just a couple of generations she is an “American.” (I suspect that Angela may be a 3rd generation American as well?) When Jess’s great-grandparents arrived here they were reviled as “greenhorns” and Jess’s paternal ancestors were faced with signs that read “No Irish Need Apply.” But, at least back then we weren’t threatening to put up very long fences……don’t get me started. Like Jess and Angela, I’m an East girl, but unlike them I moved even farther East - about as far as you can move East in this country without getting really, really wet. And while the East is the “old” part of the USA, this place I inhabit is a place of “firsts.” Most recently, first to accept gay marriage as legal and first to mandate health insurance for all its citizens. The tiny town on this sand bar I now call home boasts a beach named after the “First Encounter” that the first immigrants had with the Native Americans - It wasn’t a very friendly encounter back then either, surprise-surprise. I guess in some ways, little has changed. These are just some of the random thoughts that East / West has inspired in me. I hope that I’ve drawn in some “googlers” with some of the words/ phrases I’ve used and that the East / West theme will develp further.
    And oh yes….why do I know so much about Jess’s ancestry? I guess I must confess that I’m one of them….her mother!

         by Andrea April 16th, 2006 at 2:09 pm


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