Being a recent reader of “MacGougan at Large” I may have missed some important geographical MacGougan milestones.

For example, I may be operating under the mistaken belief that you live in Connecticut. When I started reading MaL, the essays (or whatever they’re called) were about Hawaii. Now they’re about New Hampshire. There might even have been some reference in there to Norway.

In fact , when I started typing “MacGougan” the first time today, my phone unaccountably suggested the word “Harvard” (that’s gotta hurt, I’m thinking). Where are you exactly?

By the way, I grew up in Manchester (CT). AI tells me that 22 US states have a town called “Manchester” including, not surprisingly, all of the New England states except Rhode Island (for the record, I went to college in RI and there’s a lot of stuff it doesn’t have).*

*Originally I had a reason for this Manchester thing but that reason, which at the time felt like a pretty good one, seems gone now. My apologies.