Quaker captains and crew would routinely set out from the island's harbor to make treacherous journeys around Cape Horn to the coast of Chile to harpoon massive sperm whales, whose precious oil was used to light towns across America.
We did it right here in Morrisville, in a little one-traffic-light town".
Despite the concerns of the locals, Todos Santos, a one-traffic-light town, is small by any measure.
It only appears that I grew up in the no-stop-light town of Smallville, a k a Kingston, N.H., which had more cows than people when I was born there in 1957.
"I was intimidated," said Jones, who was born in Deland, Fla. "I'm from a one-caution-light town in the middle of nowhere, and now you're going to drop me in the middle of Manhattan?
The campus and the land around it — the three-traffic-light town of Prairie View, the flat country between Houston and Austin — lay hot and quiet, but the gym was packed and raging.
By reputation at least, London and New York City are rich and cosmopolitan, and the average one-stop-light town in the middle of Iowa is relatively poor and insular.
Without the benefit of street lighting, towns and cities, after sunset, will be diminished as communities.
THIS leafy township in the northern reaches of Bergen County is one of those places that could once have been called one-traffic-light towns -- except that not long ago this one got a second traffic light.
Tucked away on winding, oak tree-lined roads or in one-traffic-light towns, bastions of smoked brisket have lured the palates of many discerning carnivores.
