I wrote in a post last week: "I lived a good percentage of my life in Blacksburg (as recently as 2005) and won't go on about that here." But I did go ahead, writing a personal essay about it at The Morning News. Thanks for reading.
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Blacksburg, says ScienceBlogger Benjamin Cohen in Tuesday's issue of
It's maybe hard for some of us to believe, but it has been 2 years since the Virginia Tech massacre.
While everyone decides the best way they can deal with the mass murder this week, I'll point only to this commentary in the Chronicle yesterday that I found well put.
Classes resume today in Blacksburg. Somehow.
That was beautifully done. And it really struck a chord: you could have been describing Pullman, WA, where I spent four years (around 9/11) with small children...
well done, ben. as another 11-year veteran of the burg, i've been mulling over similar reminiscences also. yours are better written, though.
thanks mercury; thanks homebrew.
follow-up: m. rea tells me axl didn't makeit to the cellar that night, but duff and izzy did.
I only spent four years in Blacksburg, but went back a lot in the immediate years after leaving in 1995. Thanks for writing this...