From: BOBBITT,HEATHER [mailto:hbobbitt@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:45 PM
To: tom.howland@us.xacct.com
Subject: Re: Do you know if...
Shaker
Heights, a neighborhood in Cleveland, OH won the a national award recently for
being the most integrated and peaceful neighborhood in America. Cleveland used
to have a pollution problem back in the 60's and early 70's. Now they have
cleaned up using ingenious and internationally acclaimed environmetally
responsible methods. Now people fish out of Lake Erie everyday. The wine
industry there is beginning to boom. The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra has been
considered world class consistently since the 1960's and has recently managed
to "steal away" a conductor from the New York Philharmonic. Cleveland
public schols rank the highest in the state. The multi-ethnic diversity in
culture, cuisine and cultural oportunity rivals that of Chicago, and in the
case of the Polish, Greek and Slavic communities, out does Chicago! Shall I go
on?
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:27 PM
Subject: RE: Do you know if...
It
is a common point of view that there exists CA and NY, and everything else in
between is sort of an embarassing mistake that is best not mentioned. I've
often heard people talk of Cleveland or Cincinnati as though it were some
hideous hell-hole. Maybe they're right. I never thought so though. I think
Cleveland is the apex of civilization. It has parks, museums, live theater,
lakefront, functioning railway, subway, bus, opera, ballet, rock clubs, jazz
clubs, blues clubs, a funky waterfront. What more do you want? Affordable
housing? Its got that too. People in NY talk funny. And people in CA are in
some happy-faced daze all the time. Cleveland rules.