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Readers agree that the world can feel very small
Readers share thoughts on topics ranging from favorite getaways to mangling of place names
Date published: 10/11/2009 By Rob Hedelt TODAY'S column John C. Bernhartsen Entering that terminal, he ran into an old friend he'd shared a room with in 1948, halfway around the world in Tokyo, who himself was going to a new posting in Europe. Ten minutes' difference in flight times and they'd have missed each other entirely. In 1974, Bernhartsen attended a large Smithsonian folk festival on the Mall in D.C. "Wandering around, I heard some music I recognized and went over and talked to a couple as they came off the dance floor," he said. "It turned out to be my cousin's daughter and her husband, and he played my uncle's violin. My mother's family resides in a small mountain valley in central Norway." Kelly Hicks of Fredericksburg had a response that mixed reactions to the small-world column and several on readers' favorite getaways. The trip she was still excited about was a journey to Lockport, N.Y., where her family enjoyed a cruise on the Erie Canal. "While on board, crew member Jeff Smith joined us to point out landmarks along the way and share the incredible history of the Erie Canal," she said. "He asked where we were from, and we said Fredericksburg. He became more animated, and said his brother lives here and was recently given an award for Officer of the Year" in a nearby jurisdiction. "He spoke with such pride, lauding his brother's achievement in law enforcement," she said. "The sense of family and connection to Fredericksburg was palpable." Ben Blankenship of Stafford County responded to a column about the difficulty people have saying some place and business names around here. "When I first moved down to Stafford from Falls Church, my friends had fun with Foul-Mouth," he said of their attempts at saying Falmouth.
Date published: 10/11/2009
Coincidences
(posted by
CncrndCitzen
, Oct. 11, 2009 9:59 am)
What a timely article! My wife and I were returning from a recent trip. While in Miami International we encountered some people we had gone to church with who were also traveling back from a vacation trip. But it didn't stop there. They were on the same flight returning home, they sat directly in front of us and get this....they live less that half a mile away from us in the same sub-division! Now talk about coincidence!
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