Leigh was born to a middle-class Jewish doctor in a working-class outpost of Manchester.
"We were this funny little middle-class outpost of a big working-class family, and that was a really lovely place to be.
But these days the institution born in 1918 as the New Jersey College for Women is considered by many to be a struggling second-class outpost on the state university's sprawling campus here, where College Board scores are 100 points lower than at the more prestigious Rutgers College.
This is painfully evident in places like the San Fernando Valley, where I live, long a middle-class outpost for L.A., much like Queens and Staten Island are for New York.
It has taken less than half a season for an organization that methodically won the World Series three of the last four years to shudder at the possibility of competing for its rightful place in the playoffs against teams from that former Class AAA outpost, the American League West.
But $16 caps, $45 polo shirts and $140 jerseys -- with the Brooklyn 'B' given by permission of the Dodgers -- were bigger sellers than similar items sold by such long-established Class AAA outposts as Rochester, Louisville and Columbus.
In the summer, May takes guests foraging for fiddleheads and chanterelles, then teaches afternoon cooking classes at the Outpost's new gourmet theater and kitchen stage.
In 2008, Village Roadshow, an Australia-based company that operates a string of theater-restaurant combination venues called Gold Class opened U.S. outposts in Redmond, Wash., and South Barrington, Ill.; there are plans to open 50 more across the country in the next five years.
It was still an upgrade from Class AA Portland, the Maine outpost he outgrew in 61 games last season.
Though the area has some luxury homes, many modest cottages and trailers dot the lakeshore, serving as weekend getaways for the middle class from Syracuse, Watertown and Canadian outposts across the nearby border.
Morningside Gardens has long been an outpost of the middle class.
