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Green and Town
" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.
In Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes " Green Town ," Illinois.
In his stories, Green Town is a symbol of safety and home, which is often juxtaposed as a contrasting backdrop to tales of fantasy or menace.
Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in Summer Morning, Summer Night, a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots.
He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as " Green Town " in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels — Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer — as well as in many of his short stories.
On 29 November 2003, May and Taylor performed at the 46664 Concert hosted by Nelson Mandela at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, in order to raise awareness of the spread of HIV / AIDS in South Africa.
The CCE & HR ( commonly known as the " Hampstead Tube ") was opened in 1907 and ran from Charing Cross ( known for many years as Strand ) via Euston and Camden Town ( where there was a junction ) to Golders Green and Highgate ( now known as Archway ).
There are sidings at Oakwood, South Harrow, Arnos Grove, Rayners Lane, Down Street, Wood Green, Acton Town, Ruislip and Uxbridge.
North Acton, West Acton, East Acton, South Acton, Acton Green, Acton Town and Acton Central are all parts of Acton.
To the east of Bethnal Green lies Globe Town, established from 1800 to provide for the expanding population of weavers around Bethnal Green attracted by improving prospects in silk weaving.
Kentish Town was an early base for the Social Democratic Party and in recent years the increasingly middle class population has returned large votes for the Green and Liberal Democrat parties.
In 2005, a survey of Kentish Town by the local Green Party claimed that out of 87 shops on Kentish Town Road ( locally known as Kentish Town High Street ), 53 were still independently owned.
It is both residentially and financially developed, well served by Transport for London, and home to Mitcham Town Centre, Mitcham Common, Mitcham Library, and Mitcham Cricket Green.
Santee also is the eastern terminus of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System ( MTS ) Green Line trolley route, which connects East County to Old Town and downtown San Diego.
Also in 1996, the Windsor Bowl Center, just east of the Town Green, was used in exterior shots for the movie Dream with the Fishes
Pingree Grove is becoming known as a " Green Town ", being environmentally friendly.
In November 2009, the Town broke ground on its " Green Street " in a ceremony attended by US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator Lisa Jackson.
** Jackman-Willett House, Lower Green vicinity, Newbury Old Town, MA
Remains of the original Town Green
At the busy intersection of College Highway ( U. S. Route 202 ) at Granville Road ( Massachusetts Route 57 ) and Depot Street there was a " Town Green " Basic markets of trade, communication, medical and grooming services, barns and utilitarian outbuildings served the traveling public and their horses as well as Southwick's own.
* New London Town Green: Friday nights during the summer there are free concerts here.

Green and Bradbury's
He also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, the sequel The Gravy Train Goes East ( which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka ), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man.
Included in the series were adaptations of Robert Sheckley's " Skulking Permit ," Bradbury's " Mars Is Heaven ", Heinlein's " Universe " and " The Green Hills of Earth ", " Pohl ’ s " The Tunnel under the World ", J. T. McIntosh ’ s " Hallucination Orbit ", Fritz Leiber ’ s " A Pail of Air ", and George Lefferts ' " The Parade ".
The two works are set in the fictitious Green Town ( based on Bradbury's hometown, Waukegan, Illinois ), but have different tones, with Something Wicked having an emphasis on the more serious side of the transition from childhood to adulthood.
These two novels, coupled with Bradbury's official 2006 sequel to Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer, make up the Green Town trilogy.
Bradbury's novel Green Shadows, White Whale includes a fictionalized version of his writing the screenplay with John Huston in Ireland.

Green and favorite
While favorite sons County Attorney Earl Warren of California, Governor Warren Green of South Dakota, and Stephen A.
Ben K. Green ( 1912 – 1974 ) wrote about his favorite subject, the not-so-old American west.
) Dutch's Tavern on Green Street was a favorite watering hole of Eugene O ' Neill and still stands today.
In Panama one of the Green iguana's favorite foods is wild plum, Spondias mombin.
He says that his favorite episode of Deep Space Nine was " Little Green Men " as it was the only episode where he is shown captaining a ship.
The group still voted to advance Senator Morse, after Congresswoman Edith Green introduced him as a favorite son.
* Bud Redding ( DJ Bud ) played in Green Jellö during the Buffalo days, and was the DJ at the band's favorite venue, The Continental.
Zero had a favorite painting, John White Alexander ’ s Study for Woman in Black and Green, which he copied every day, to the delight of the gallery crowds.
Helms is a comic book fan, and one of his favorite characters is the Green Lantern.
" Big Green Ed ", as his likeness is often referred to, is a favorite of locals and tourists alike.
Scott Owen has said that his favorite bands include Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat, Midnight Oil, The Clash, The Jam, Green Day, Sublime, Bodyjar, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Rancid, The Beatles and Supergrass.
Taylor has cited Uncanny X-men, Green Arrow, Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Batman, Iron Man, and The Flash as his favorite comic books series.
In the 1960 NFL Championship Game, throwing to his favorite receiver, 5 ' 9 ", 176 pound Tommy McDonald, Van Brocklin quarterbacked the Eagles to victory against the Green Bay Packers.
His favorite music consists of classical, " Taps " and " Ballad of the Green Berets ".
Apu asks about her favorite food, book and movie ; the answer to all three questions is Fried Green Tomatoes.
Green Monster Number 11, Art Arfons ' favorite, hit 191 miles per hour to beat Don Garlits.
2010 Camp Fortson 4-H Camp Counselors — They are organized by colors and crews ; Blue Crew, Orange Crew, Yellow Crew, Red Crew, Green Crew, and Crew Chief Mary. Summer camp has been a favorite experience of many 4-H ’ ers and adults, who were once 4-H ’ ers.
James Dobson has written of the course that " the original little masterpiece at Green Lakes, where Wendy and I and sometimes the other Dewsweepers slipped away to chase the game among the gloriously mature evergreens and admire the long view over a dark blue glacial lake, to the very foothills of the Adirondacks themselves, remained just about my favorite Trent Jones golf course of all.
Scropos recorded the bass track for one song, the crowd favorite " Green and Dumb ", on RCPM's debut CD, Honky Tonk Union.
The upbeat jig that runs throughout the song makes " Minority " a live favorite as Green Day nearly always include it in their live sets.
" " But, however, in the last 10 or so years, I have had quite a few young Jewish boys who will tell me that I am their favorite player or they love watching me play or they feel like baseball is a good fit for them because it worked for me or it worked for Shawn Green or other Jewish players at the major league level.
Nader decided to forgo the Green nomination in favor of asking for an " endorsement " of his independent candidacy ; the Greens instead nominated David Cobb for President on the second ballot from among a number of candidates, many of whom were " favorite sons ", running as placeholders for Nader.
Jurkovic was a fan favorite in Green Bay for his boisterous personality.

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