Word: callicoon
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...Emma Walters, a young German-born woman he had married the previous week, as well as a four-year-old, brown-skinned boy named Alexander, whom Christoph claimed to have adopted. Eventually they made their way to upstate New York, where Christoph bought a hotel and saloon in Callicoon, a small town on the Delaware River. Knowing little else about my great-grandfather, but appreciating the tales of adventure and bravery, my husband and I named our son Christof, altering the spelling slightly...
...KICKER, of course, is that this moderate, suburban, new-breed Republican Perry Duryea does not exist. Duryea's sentiments are about as suburban-sophisticated as those of the feed dealer in upstate Callicoon; back home in Montauk, where the folks care less about Medicaid funding and mass transit than whether the state will subsidize a new trawler dock, Duryea has survived only by aggressive, unrelenting provincialism...
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