Each makes reference to small-town beginnings.
Mr. Kanas, having uprooted North Fork from its small-town beginnings in Mattituck, 50 miles to the east, seemed enthralled by future prospects, especially to the west, Mr. Spector recalled.
What they don't necessarily convey is that he also had a kind of genius that manifested itself in his zest for drawing from a very early age, and that drove him forward from small-town beginnings in Michigan to set up as a commercial artist (with very little formal training, but with a thorough and all-important grounding in perspective).
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The novel is full of references to Missoula's natural surroundings, which along with its logging-town beginnings and location as the state's first university has continued to give Missoula an eclectic mix of cowboys and loggers co-existing with holdover hippies and college students, not to mention sports fans and retirees.
Stratford, much like its most famous native son, is a town with humble beginnings that now draws hundreds of thousands of fans — or rather, tourists — for the Shakespeare festival, celebrating its 60th-anniversary season through October.
Now it really begins, a bunch of games all at once, updates from the out-of-town scoreboard, new beginnings everywhere.
Accordingly, Schmidt toured McCain through Annapolis, Alexandria and Jacksonville, the towns of his beginnings (an idea conceived by Karl Rove, according to a senior adviser), and then made an empathy swing through poor regions of the country.
By 1700, the town already had the beginnings of a solid infrastructure - including a constabulary and fence inspectors, according to Barbara Davis, New Rochelle's acting town historian.
The famous weaving tradition of the town of Blackburn had its beginnings in the 13th-century wool trade.
Founded over 1000 years ago, the town has thrived, from its beginnings as a town of fishermen and salt merchants, through its expansion as a destination for wine exporters, to its position today as the third most visited town in France.
