[Publib] re: upstate; was :Thursday (now Friday) humor

[Ben Schapiro]

Thinking back to my youth on Long Island, my recollection is my grade  
school peers and I felt Upstate stated just outside of Freedomland  
Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomland_U.S.A.

Later in High School the boundary between up and down moved to just  
outside of Palisades Park (which is in New Jersey, another universe  
altogether) http://www.palisadespark.com/index.htm

Of course as we got older and acquired drivers licenses the line  
moved to somewhere around New Paltz.



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On May 3, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Herb, Joanne wrote:

> As an expatriate upstate New Yorker, (and proud of it,) I would  
> venture to say that a large part of the state views Upstate New  
> York as starting at the southern border of Yonkers. As a graduate  
> of the SUNY system, awash in downstaters, I would reply that  
> Upstate starts at the northern borders of Orange and Putnam Counties.
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> The various other regions, Central New York, Western New York, the  
> North Country, etc., still apply.
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> Joanne
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> former Southern Tier resident
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> Joanne Herb
>
> Morris County Library
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