h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi there!

I have been allocated your Entry to sub. It is now at A10335197. Nothing has been done to it yet... I am just having a read through to get a feel for it...

An initial query:
Take care when venturing into the water, however, as the legendary Long Island sound forms the coast of all of Connecticut. --> what do you mean by this?

Long Island Sound is a harsh mistress --> why is it harsh?

Sorry for being blur... It is late at night here.



mini

No need to be sorry, I think I forgot to edit that part when I edited out some other things. I initally had some strange superhero joke in there about sewage or something, but I removed it. Really all that is necessary is to mention that Long Island Sound forms the coastline of all of Connecticut, specifically New Haven's harbor.

The harsh mistress part falls into that same category of 'I guess I forgot to remove that silly line when I re-edited my entry.' Sorry ^_^

Hi there!

Thanks for that... progressing further down the Entry to: Local Ghost Stories.

You have put a link in there as the content of the paragraph. Unfortunately, I will not be able to leave that it like that. There are a couple of choices:

Either,
1. You let me know what you would like to put in there instead - maybe a summary of the article that you are linking to.
Or,
2. This section is removed.

Let me know your decision. Thanks.



mini

I will have a summary of the ghost story article and have the link as a reference by this evening.

Right now I'm in between classes ^_^

Sorry it took so long, but here's a quick summary:

The Union Trust building on the New Haven green has been the subject of many paranormal sightings. This sort of this is usually nothing at all provable or factual, but the sightings themselves are really reported, and therefore the tourism and draw associated with visiting this building are real. There are far too many stories to summarize here, but this site (link here, or wherever it should go) catalogs sightings rom 1984 until the present. It also has some interesting facts about the Union Trust building itself all the way at the bottom. Just another intriguing landmark in New Haven.

Oh, sorry, I should preface that paragraph with this:

The Union Trust building in the New Haven was completed in 1928. Today it stands on the corner of Elm and Church as a the Wachovia building.

ok. Here is the first cut of the subbed version. I still have to edit some parts a bit more, put in some links etc...

Let me know...



mini

Looking rather lovely, I must say ^_^

Although, should there be a citation of that original web site that I took the ghost story info from, or would you say that falls under common knowledge (which it pretty much is) ?

Just a thought, not a big one at that.

Sorry. Meant to say that I had another look at the website and unfortunately it does not seem completely reputable. I thought that I should leave it out.



mini

Ah, well that makes sense. It was just a fan site type deal anyway, I was just wondering ^_^

Hi there!

Just following up from a point raised in Peer Review regarding the Nathan Hale section. I think that it is a little long for this Entry, and maybe you would like to take it out and put it into another Entry that will focus more on him - it is good.

Also, Nathan Hale is from Coventry and not from New Haven. So the link to this Entry seems a little tenuous. Instead of him, maybe you could have a short list of actual New Haveners.

Let me know your thoughts on this.



mini

I'll take another look at it, as this was one a a larger number of longer paragraphs that were mostly removed because they were CT and not town-specific. Let me see what I can do.

This is a truncated version, highlighting the New Haven connection to the history and to Hale. If this is still deemed to much, then I suppose it would have to be removed entirely.

---A Notable Local: Nathan Hale

'It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. '
-General Douglas MacArthur

Hale’s contemporaries described him as kind, gentle, religious, athletic, intelligent, good looking, and in the words of one friend, 'the idol of all his acquaintances.' It is said that all the girls of New Haven were in love with this tall and fair young man; they were impressed by his athletic ways, his good looks and his strong Christian ideals.

Born in 1755, Nathan Hale was the sixth of ten surviving children of the landed Deacon Richard Hale, of Coventry, in north-central Connecticut. By the time he was 14, young Nathan and his brother Enoch had enrolled at Yale College; he would graduate with honours at the age of 18.

The cosmopolitan atmosphere of New Haven agreed with Nathan much more than the perceived boredom of pastoral life in Coventry; here he was exposed to many new, progressive ideas which were hotly debated by his contemporaries: astronomy, mathematics, literature, the ethics of slavery, and the questioned value of educating young women. Meetings were held in New College, the only dormitory at Yale that Nathan Hale frequented which is still standing. Today, it is called Connecticut Hall, and a statue of Nathan Hale stands in front of it.

Today, if you visit Nathan Hale’s homestead in Coventry, you will find that the red farmhouse and the surrounding grounds, lined with ancient stone walls, are almost exactly as he would have known them. The only sound you’ll hear is that of the wind rustling the leaves on the old trees surrounding his father’s farmhouse. Hale last visited home while on leave in 1776; he was bound for New York, a trip from which he would not return.

While returning from his intelligence mission, Hale was captured, identified as a spy, and sentenced to death by General William Howe. At his execution, Nathan Hale asked for a Bible, but his request was refused. He was marched out by a guard and hanged upon an apple tree in a place called Rutgers’s Orchard; that place was near the present New York City intersection of East Broadway and Market Streets. At the hanging, the British commander asked him to make his dying 'speech and confession.' 'I only regret,' Hale said, 'that I have but one life to lose for my country.' ---

Thanks for shortening that... however, it does not sort out my one query about Nathan Hale. Is he really considered a notable local if he is from Coventry and not New Haven?




mini

He was born in Coventry, but he lived and thrived in New Haven (during the Yale years and beyond). I'd consider it valid, but if you still don't think the connection is warranted enough, than I can just add the entirety of the Hale Section to a generic CT listing (by giving it to shagbark for his, I suppose).

It's up to you, I'm not married to either idea ^_^

Hi there!

Sorry about the delay - work got crazy...

Anyway, this should be the version that is going into the Guide. Let me know whether this is



mini

Where do I go to check the final version? The link in this thread?

And thanks, by the way, I really appreciate how helpful everyone has been ^_^

Yup. The final-ish version is at A10335197.



mini

I don't like it.

...

I love it!! Thanks again ^_^

any guesses as to when it will hit the front page?