{"id":3883,"date":"2014-01-04T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2020-01-02T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T04:11:55","slug":"famous-neighbors-scott-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/famous-neighbors-scott-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous neighbors: Scott Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A is Oxford, B is Windham.<\/p><\/div>\n

I blogged a few years back about how Camille Paglia lived<\/a>, for a time, in my hometown of Oxford, NY.<\/p>\n

Turns out I had another someday-would-be-famous neighbor — not quite so close as in the same town, but I’m still counting it :-)<\/p>\n

Scott Adams, who is three or four years older than me, grew up in Windham, NY.<\/p>\n

Windham is about an hour and forty five minute’s drive from Oxford. That sounds like a lot except that the driving consists of winding through 2-lane mountain roads. I speak from experience. Delhi, NY, about halfway between the two towns, was (is?) one of the schools in the same sports section and division as Oxford; anyone who played or spectated Oxford sports was in Delhi several times a year during high school. I remember it as being the looooooong bus ride :-)<\/p>\n

And Route 23, the main road into Windham, is well known to Oxfordians. It’s one of the main highways out of Norwich, the Chenango County seat.<\/p>\n

As Upstate NY towns go, I don’t need to see Windham to know it has a lot in common with Oxford, although it’s probably a bit smaller (Adams writes in How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life<\/em><\/a> that he had 40 people in his graduating class).<\/p>\n

In his book, Adams tells a story of how his car broke down once between home and Syracuse on a “newly constructed highway through a sparsely populated valley in the Catskill Mountains.” I have to think that’s Route I-88<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

Here’s a WaPo article by Adams<\/a> — one of several that have appeared lately that are excerpted from his book. I read it today, because of course I want to be happy, and which reminded me that How to Fail…<\/em> was on my TBR pile.<\/p>\n

Highly recommend the book if you’re looking for some New Year’s encouragement :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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