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A geography lesson
Yesterday’s appearance by Sen. Joe Biden at Linvilla Orchards gave me another lesson in one of the vagaries of Delaware County geography.
I heard any number of media outlets trumpeting the campaign stop by the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Most of them indicated he would be appearing at Linvilla Orchards.
In Media.
Oh, really? I beg to disagree. Biden wasn’t in Media. Didn’t even come close, really.
Unless they moved Linvilla Orchards, Biden was in Middletown Township.
It’s one of those things about the county that cause me no small amount of aggravation. We have a tendency at the newspaper to refer to things by their mailing address. I don’t even know but I am guessing that the postal address for Linvilla Orchards is in fact Media, Pa.
That gives it something in common with this newspaper, which is published every day in a place called Primos, Pa. Which is nice except for one thing. There’s no such place. We are located geographically in Upper Darby Township. Primos doesn’t exist, other than in the eyes of the United State Postal Service. If you can find me the Primos Borough Council I’ll have a pretty good story for tomorrow.
Nope, Primos has something in common with places like Secane, Havertown, Drexel Hill, Broomall, Linwood, Boothwyn and Glen Mills. None of them actually exist.
Our policy at the newspaper is, whenever possible, to be geographically correct in terms of referring to where people live. Sometimes that’s easier to do than others.
Media is especially troublesome. Do you have any idea how many towns, or parts of them, get their mail delivered from the Media Post Office, giving them a Media mailing address?
For instance, we have this news flash just in. They have not moved the Granite Run Mall. At least not that I’m aware of. Yet it is constantly referred to as being in Media.
And, of course, there’s my favorite. My good friends at the “Media” barracks of the state police. Go ahead, accuse of “copping” an attitude, but the “Media” barracks is not in Media, it’s also in Middletown.
Most of the times this is fairly innocent. But a lot of people get fairly provincial when it comes to their towns. They get fairly indignant when someone does something pretty despicable and they believe their lovely little burg is being unfairly slimed in the process.
It happens a couple of times every week. We’ll list someone as being from a certain town, because that’s the way they are listed in the police information. Most likely that is because that is their mailing address. Which, of course, may or may not be where they reside geographically.
Which drives one editor in Primos fairly close to the edge … of Secane, of course.
I heard any number of media outlets trumpeting the campaign stop by the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Most of them indicated he would be appearing at Linvilla Orchards.
In Media.
Oh, really? I beg to disagree. Biden wasn’t in Media. Didn’t even come close, really.
Unless they moved Linvilla Orchards, Biden was in Middletown Township.
It’s one of those things about the county that cause me no small amount of aggravation. We have a tendency at the newspaper to refer to things by their mailing address. I don’t even know but I am guessing that the postal address for Linvilla Orchards is in fact Media, Pa.
That gives it something in common with this newspaper, which is published every day in a place called Primos, Pa. Which is nice except for one thing. There’s no such place. We are located geographically in Upper Darby Township. Primos doesn’t exist, other than in the eyes of the United State Postal Service. If you can find me the Primos Borough Council I’ll have a pretty good story for tomorrow.
Nope, Primos has something in common with places like Secane, Havertown, Drexel Hill, Broomall, Linwood, Boothwyn and Glen Mills. None of them actually exist.
Our policy at the newspaper is, whenever possible, to be geographically correct in terms of referring to where people live. Sometimes that’s easier to do than others.
Media is especially troublesome. Do you have any idea how many towns, or parts of them, get their mail delivered from the Media Post Office, giving them a Media mailing address?
For instance, we have this news flash just in. They have not moved the Granite Run Mall. At least not that I’m aware of. Yet it is constantly referred to as being in Media.
And, of course, there’s my favorite. My good friends at the “Media” barracks of the state police. Go ahead, accuse of “copping” an attitude, but the “Media” barracks is not in Media, it’s also in Middletown.
Most of the times this is fairly innocent. But a lot of people get fairly provincial when it comes to their towns. They get fairly indignant when someone does something pretty despicable and they believe their lovely little burg is being unfairly slimed in the process.
It happens a couple of times every week. We’ll list someone as being from a certain town, because that’s the way they are listed in the police information. Most likely that is because that is their mailing address. Which, of course, may or may not be where they reside geographically.
Which drives one editor in Primos fairly close to the edge … of Secane, of course.
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