>>>>>>I always think of Coventry as rural New England, real CT yankee territory.
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>>>>>Now you're making me homesick!! <g>
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>>>>Not very, I bet <g>. Every time I go back to Maine, taking in the scenery from Logan to Portland, it seems older and more used up. I don't regret leaving.
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>>>I bet it holds for the other Portland too - all ore, gone.
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>>Portland, Or? Beautiful city (very liberal city too :o)
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>So the ore is gone? What did I say :).
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>I've been to our Portland, Beo[c-caron, unspellable]in near Novi Sad - and the part of the place that's too close to the cement factory (it's not a plant, plants are green) looked like a modern parking lot. But the rest of the place was actually a spa - with their own mineral water well etc.

Natives of Portland, OR like to say Portland is named after Portlandia - something that never existed though. However, "Portland got its name when Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove flipped a coin in 1845. Lovejoy was from Massachusetts and he wanted to name the new settlement Boston. Pettygrove was from Maine and wanted to name the new town Portland. Pettygrove won the coin toss two out of three times and the rest as they say is history. "

http://www.pdxhistory.com/

There is a really cool sculpture downtown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portlandia.jpg

Oh, and it is the 'will AM it' dam it :o) (Did that get by the censors?)