Explore America With The Official Small City/ Town Thread

[Mindy]

Anchorage, Alaska


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska

Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage; Dena'ina: Dgheyay Kaq'; Russian: Анкоридж) is a unified municipal consolidated city-borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the West Coast of the United States. With an estimated 288,000 residents in 2019,[6] it is Alaska's most populous city and contains 39.37% of the state's population; among the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in its most populous city. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 396,317 in 2019, accounting for more than half the state's population. At 1,706 square miles (4,420 km2) of land area, the city is the fourth-largest by area in the United States and larger than the smallest state, Rhode Island, which has 1,212 square miles (3,140 km2).[7][8]

Anchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south.[9] The city limits span 1,961.1 square miles (5,079.2 km2), encompassing the urban core, a joint military base,[10] several outlying communities and almost all of Chugach State Park.[11]

Due to its location, almost equidistant from New York City and Tokyo, Anchorage lies within ​9 1⁄2 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world.[12] For this reason, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a common refueling stop for international cargo flights and home to a major FedEx hub, which the company calls a "critical part" of its global network of services.[13]

Anchorage has won the All-America City Award four times: in 1956, 1965, 1984–85, and 2002, from the National Civic League.[14] Kiplinger has named it the United States' most tax-friendly city.[15]

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

New Haven, CT


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut
Population• Estimate (2018) 130,418

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HBVFCkt6k

[Lisnaholic]

I like looking at the photos you post here, Mindfulness, and this time you have given me an added bonus: an excuse to be pedantic.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HBVFCkt6k

However worthy the effort highlighted in this video might be, they aren't engaged in painting a mural imo. A mural goes on a wall, and we have other terms for what WFSB 3 is reporting on. Some terms to choose from are: Street painting, (also known as screeving, pavement art, street art, and sidewalk art) and Ground Painting. All of those are on horizontal surfaces, while a mural is surely vertical. WFSB 3 might as well be calling this a window:-

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I like looking at the photos you post here, Mindfulness, and this time you have given me an added bonus: an excuse to be pedantic.



However worthy the effort highlighted in this video might be, they aren't engaged in painting a mural imo. A mural goes on a wall, and we have other terms for what WFSB 3 is reporting on. Some terms to choose from are: Street painting, (also known as screeving, pavement art, street art, and sidewalk art) and Ground Painting. All of those are on horizontal surfaces, while a mural is surely vertical. WFSB 3 might as well be calling this a window:-

I didnt know that, thanks for sharing

[Psy-Fi]

The Doors - Peace Frog

There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles
(She came) Blood in the streets it's up to my knee
(She came) Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
(She came) Blood on the rise it's following me
Think about the break of day
She came and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

(She came) Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
(She came) Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh
(She came) Yeah the river runs red down the legs of a city
(She came) The women are crying red rivers of weepin'
She came in town and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind

Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of fantastic L.A

Blood screams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union

There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets it's up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
Blood on the rise it's following me

[Mindy]

Thats a good song and didnt know it mentioned new haven

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Thats a good song and didnt know it mentioned new haven

Every time I've ever driven through New Haven, that song has popped into my mind.

Probably always will.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

I didnt know that, thanks for sharing

The mindfulness equivalent of "cool storybro".

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

The mindfulness equivalent of "cool storybro".

lol Sometimes I dont know what to type but that was a genuine "thats cool"

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Anchorage, Alaska


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska

Anchorage seems pretty dope. I tried a few times to get teaching gigs in Alaska but never landed anything.