Sentence examples for of local lore from inspiring English sources

He knew a lot of local lore.

Her never-failing presence at various township meetings was the stuff of local lore.

Why the law has not been tweaked is the stuff of local lore.

An interesting bit of local lore: pregnant woman can't make cheese because the milk won't curdle.

Every Texas city and many towns have barbecue places that are part of local lore.

And there is Merz, a national treasure and keeper of local lore, philosopher-sailor of the dwindling hobo flotilla.

D. W. Griffith, who went on to fame as the director of "Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance," made his first movie in the town, and according to local lore, episodes of the serial "Perils of Pauline" were filmed in Belle Haven, a section of Greenwich.

They are all part of the local lore, to be sure, but Chicagoans are tired of hearing about them.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y., Nov. 30 — It is part of the local lore, the way people in some cities know the win-loss record of their N.F.L. team, that the General Electric Company once employed 40,000 people here and now employs about 3,000.

Mr. Stark said that although the three suspects in Montclair had not even been born when the Glen Ridge case shook the community, it had become an ingrained part of the local lore, and he suggested that the boys might have been trying to emulate it.

The smart and capable and curious young Eilis arrives in New York with a head full of stories and myths and dreams, arrives in a city that she's been hearing about throughout her life, is surrounded by the real places that have been the stuff of her local lore — and, in the movie, Eilis expects nothing, imagines nothing, knows nothing, sees nothing, does nothing.