I ran across Wikipedia's lists of people from Lincoln, Nebraska (list 1, list 2) this morning. It is always as interesting to see who is not listed as it is to see whose name is present. Are there any people missing from the list who really ought to be there?
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I think of “from Lincoln” as “born in Lincoln”.
Gordon MacRae was born in New Jersey. I ran across his grave in Wyuka the other day and know he died here, but he wasn’t “from Lincoln”.
Johnny Carson was from Iowa, raised in Norfolk, NE. He went to school here, but I don’t think he lived here other than as a student.
I thought about that a little. I disagree with you. I am most certainly not “from” Atlantic, Iowa; I can barely find it on a map. “Born in” and “from” are two distinct concepts, IMHO.
I don’t know who said it first, but I have heard it said that you are “from” the place you lost your virginity. (Insert barrage of punchlines here.)
Think of all those poor virgins out there, struggling in limbo.
Godspeed, virgins!
I could not live here if we used only the born in Lincoln criteria. Hilary Swank can only offset so much of the Dick Cheney stigmata.
OK… less strict. EIther born or spent a significant amount of time as a child?? I don’t think Johnny Carson would have said “I’m from Lincoln” because he was from Norfolk.
I went to college in Columbia, MO, and I’ve never said I was from there. (and they’ve never claimed me either!)
Sometimes I think the local media’s requirements for being ‘from Lincoln’ are that you have to have visited here or had a relative that once did.
I am genuinely confused about where I’m ‘from’. I lived in Wisconsin until I was 13, and have been here for the past 16. I can say I was born and raised in Wisconsin, though I wasn’t completely raised there.
In Lincoln, because a lot of people come here for college, where you’re from seems to be where you went to high school.
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