After a fourth grade class at the New Canaan Country School studied the state hero, Nathan Hale, they began researching candidates for state heroine.
IN a state that has been lacking in heroes lately, Nathan Hale, Connecticut's true state hero, has been all but forgotten.
But the bill introduced by Mr. McHenry and 17 co-sponsors, the majority from Southern states, has run into a hornets' nest of opposition from Ohio lawmakers who will not stand still for any slight to their home-state hero.
In the end, the home-state hero more than held his own here tonight, as Senator John McCain's resounding victory over Gov. George W. Bush of Texas cut across virtually all demographic groups in the Arizona Republican electorate.
Corky Simpson, the former columnist for the Tucson Citizen, is still a state hero in Alabama for voting the Crimson Tide No. 1 on his Associated Press ballot at the start of the 1992 season, when Alabama ended up winning the national title.
One is being buried as a state hero and the other met his demise with ignominy.
Figure Skating at Lakeside Rink in Brooklyn When you were growing up, some of you may have wanted to skate like Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi, Brian Boitano... Katarina Witt was just so classy and Nancy Kerrigan was our home state hero.
Home-state heroes, a British rock pantheon, one rapper and one woman performed for "12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief," a benefit for the Robin Hood Relief Fund that was broadcast worldwide from Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.
Thus baldly stated, the hero's ethos seems oversimple by the standards of a later age.
In Alabama, Gov. Robert Bentley called James Spann, the rock star of meteorology in the state, a hero for his role when an unprecedented string of tornadoes bore down there this spring and killed nearly 250 people.
GameSpot echoed these sentiments, stating Guitar Hero had a "great guitar controller" and "killer soundtrack" and was possibly the "best rhythm game ever made".
