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String of Delta Villages 'Gone'
LA Times ^ | 9/8/05 | David Zucchino, Times Staff Writer

Posted on 09/08/2005 10:41:41 AM PDT by BurbankKarl

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To: MineralMan

Actually the term "village" isn't very common in the South, so I suppose you can make the case it IS unusual...although the term "fishing village" is used....I suspect that's where it comes from.

Also, technically, a population of 25 thousand is a city...New York City actually shouldn't be called a City, its a megalopolis. People from Los Angeles or Chicago would call a 50k population a "town" but its not...its a city...a town is a lot smaller. NY, LA, Chic, Philly et al have gone past what a "city" is. I can't remember the cutoff for the terms though..but it doesn't take much to be a "city". I guess I'm going to have to use a search engine and refresh my memory from the class I took on this 10 years ago.


21 posted on 09/08/2005 11:28:30 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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I grew up on a Maine island. There are two municipalities on the island. One is referred to as a town, the other as a village. There is a distinct difference in the size (and services provided) of each.


22 posted on 09/08/2005 11:32:32 AM PDT by Rocket1968 (Durbin must resign - NOW!)
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To: Crimson Elephant

Those definitions vary widely, from state to state. Illinois, apparently calls some pretty large cities "villages." It's part of their state structure, I guess.

In any case there was nothing insulting meant by calling those little towns in LA villages. It's just a turn of the phrase.

And those were fishing villages, to be sure.


23 posted on 09/08/2005 11:34:19 AM PDT by MineralMan
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To: Crimson Elephant

>>>a town is a lot smaller.

In NY state, a town is actually a civil division and in no way relates to the number of people living within it. I'm a former resident of the Village of Lakewood and the Town of Busti. Counties are broken-up into townships, sort of like states are broken up into counties (or parishes). Here in NC, they don't seem to have such distinctions. Federalism at work.


24 posted on 09/08/2005 11:38:53 AM PDT by NC28203
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To: NC28203
Delta Dawn, What's that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I hear you say, you were leavin' here today,
And goin' to your mansion in the sky?

25 posted on 09/08/2005 11:43:51 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: GoldCountryRedneck

Thank God!


26 posted on 09/08/2005 11:45:29 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: BurbankKarl

LOL! Me, too. I have to confess, I miss Justin cooking..."and add a little Tabasco...(as the bottle is completely emptied.)"


27 posted on 09/08/2005 11:53:01 AM PDT by pops88 (Geek Chick Parachutist Over Phorty)
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To: mindspy; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe; martin_fierro
if they begin calling towns villages it will be the multicultural name for what were once called towns

And don't let those townships slip under the radar! "TWP" is globalist code dontcha know...

28 posted on 09/08/2005 12:27:36 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: hombre_sincero
I assume that those that lived here were mostly fishermen who usually know enough about the sea to get far away from an approaching storm. Unlike others.

Not sure if this is the same area, but there were reports last week than quite a few of the shrimp fishermen were lost out on their boats, they had tried to sit out the storm and save their boats out on the water.

29 posted on 09/08/2005 12:35:38 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: mindspy
I live in the Village of Skokie. IL.
30 posted on 09/08/2005 12:36:14 PM PDT by Cheburashka
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To: mindspy
You caught that too. Down here we do not have "villages" we have "communities".
For example, the community of Mooreville has a crossroad with a four way stop and 5 or 4 stores. It AIN'T no durn "village"! It is a community.
So there!
31 posted on 09/08/2005 12:49:57 PM PDT by Bar-Face (The Embassy helicopter is warming up.)
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To: MineralMan
Way too sensitive, there, mindspy. We've always had villages. They're nothing more than small towns, mostly unincorporated and without much commerce. Maybe a general store of some kind.

Here in Northern Jersey the rich yuppie towns think it's cute to refer to themselves as "villages" even though they have plenty of commerce and a municipal government almost identical to the traditional borough setup.

32 posted on 09/08/2005 1:01:18 PM PDT by jmc813 ("Small-government conservative" is a redundancy, and "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Yikes. The only good news is that the Plaquemines Parish's largest CDP, Belle Chasse, isn't under water. There's a Naval Air Station there that's being used for the relief efforts. About one-third of the parish's population lives there.
33 posted on 09/08/2005 3:23:59 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: GoldCountryRedneck
No, the tabasco factory is over on the west side of the state near Lafayette. South of Abbeville. But yes it did survive because the storm hit the other side of the state.
34 posted on 09/08/2005 3:31:03 PM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: mindspy

Just a guess: it's an Eastern thing, most likely those in the original 13 colonies. They like that kind of stuff.


35 posted on 09/08/2005 5:48:50 PM PDT by PLK
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To: hombre_sincero

....towns built on a delta mud flat - That is to be expected that they would be erased.....

Think Bangladesh


36 posted on 09/08/2005 5:50:31 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat!)
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To: BurbankKarl; All

This set of images made available Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the same area of the Chandeleur Islands, approximately 100 kilometers east of New Orleans, La. The top image, taken in July 2001, shows narrow sandy beaches and adjacent overwash sandflats, low vegetated dunes, and backbarrier marshes broken by ponds and channels. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline. Storm surge and large waves from Hurricane Katrina submerged the islands, stripped sand from the beaches, and eroded large sections of the marsh. Today, few recognizable landforms are left on the Chandeleur Island chain. (AP Photo/USGS)

37 posted on 09/08/2005 5:56:10 PM PDT by Conservative Firster
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