Sentence examples for by a native son from inspiring English sources

Mount Airy, N.C., has adopted an identity created by a native son, Andy Griffith.

The Hastings school district won custody of a $1 million landscape painting by a native son, Jason Cropsey, that had been the center of a legal dispute among the school district, the Hastings Historical Society and the village of Hastings.

There is a range of curatorial sophistication and collection quality, but what all these places have in common is local pride in the glitzy fame achieved by a native son or daughter, the hope for some tourist dollars in otherwise out-of-the-way places, and often a beginning based on the obsessive collecting of memorabilia by a devoted fan.

FOR the past month, the University of Kansas Museum of Art, with the support of the Kansas Cultural Arts Commission, has been holding an exhibition of painting by a native son, John Steuart Curry, under the dome of the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.

In 2008, when the state primary was won by John McCain, a native son, 11 percent of voters there identified as Mormon.

Saturday 10 a.m. 4) BIKE STRONG Explore the city at a leisurely pace by renting a bicycle from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop (400 Nueces Street; 512-473-0222; www.mellowjohnnys.com), opened by Lance Armstrong, a native son, in May 2008.

He was opposed by Christian Stuckl, a native son in his late 30's who was already a professional director with experience at Munich's prestigious Kammerspiele theater and an international reputation.

It was merely that these were extenuating circumstances, and he wanted the Jaguars to recognize what he did: rarely can a team with sagging ticket sales, without a national profile or star power, solve all three problems at once by drafting a native son.

Works by artist Frank Duveneck, a native son, are displayed in the public library.

Some of the attention is due to the striking buildings designed by Santiago Calatrava, a native son.

It also features excellent weather (it averages 300 sunny days a year) and impressive architecture, including the dramatically curved City of Arts and Sciences complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a native son.