1. Annabelle Elvidge, Period 3, http://www.theforecaster.net/news/print/2014/12/08/intentionally-unreasonable-maine-yarmouthians-are/219663
2. Within this editorial (by Steve Woods) his central claim is about how with modern day technology and its availability, it is important to take time to recognize, honor, and understand the people and places connected to one’s past.
3. Woods supports his claim with soft facts about the town of Yarmouth, having shared names in Cape Cod and Nova Scotia, but centrally about Yarmouth, Maine’s roots in Yarmouth, England. He then uses a personal anecdote about how he conversed with the mayor of Yarmouth, England to schedule a visit for himself and his daughter. He talks about his journey as a wake-up call where the connection between both towns were connected with more than just the same name; “...we shared a sense of community and history; some common, some born from conflict, and some divided by an endless ocean.” Woods also explains that in order to help people reconnect with the roots of where they live that there should be an exchange program where students from each Yarmouth switch locations and live in the other Yarmouth for a period of time, essentially to gain an understanding of the connection between the two.
4. My opinion on this topic is quite the same as the Woods’. I think it is important to know exactly who and what your home originates from. Regardless of how quick and easy it would be to simply use Google Earth and get a sense of the origins of a town, experiencing it and getting a first-hand understanding is without a doubt more beneficial.

Outside information/facts:

“The River Yar is a body of water that approaches the mouth of their harbor, hence, Yar-mouth, or Yarmouth.”

Yarmouth, England’s first Town Charter was established in 1135 A.D

Questions:

-do you like the idea of this type of exchange student? Would you want to go to Yarmouth, England

-paul/ricky wanted me to ask if we think that we should still be a colony of england…

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