Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:21:59 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Erica will Explain All.
All you have to do is wait . . .

mjw

>>> leeandalexis at hotmail.com 04/04/02 10:25AM >>>
He lost me at Austin Tappan Wright, but then, I never read Islandia

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:21:05 -0500

	Found it.  Knew that one.  The listmaster misplaced the name.  =
Thank
you for the in joke.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:07 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?

Oh there's a reason . . . and it'll be early in the list . . .
Trust me on this . . .
And it's not that long of a list . . .

mjw

 >>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 10:08AM >>>
	Mike, Ah... thank you (?), but I'm not going to review the entire
Penn State Alumni Directory without a reason to do so.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:54 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?

http://www.geog.psu.edu/alumni.html

mjw

 >>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:54AM >>>
Clue #2:  South Karain Continent.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:44 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia

Clue #1: Austin Tappan Wright

mjw

 >>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:46AM >>>
	Whatever do you mean?  B->

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:34 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia

 > StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:34AM >>>
 >	Yes, obscure history is very much fun!  The state of Lincoln
 >(southern Texas) was another blacks only proposal and there have been at
 >least three maintstream novels and three science fiction novels with =
blacks
 >only states or countries within the borders of the United States.
 >	There was also a proposal to move all the Jews in the world to =
upper
 >New York State, which would certainly have altered the news from the =
Middle
 >East.
 >	The Upper Peninsula of Michigan proposed to become the state of
 >Superior and the western panhandle of Nebraska proposed to secede and
 >either
 >become a separate state or join Wyoming.  Martha's Vinyard and Nantucket
 >islands proposed to secede from Massachusetts at one time and the state =
=
=
=
=
of
 >Colorado offered to annex them if they did.  There was a proposal to =
change
 >the name of North Dakota to just Dakota because "North" sounded cold.  =
=
=
=
=
And
 >there have been recurrent proposals to divide California, most recently =
=
=
=
=
into
 >3 states.  In 1859, the state of California did pass a real law to =
divide
 >into 2 states but Congress did not approve so we are spared too many
 >Californias.  During the early Civil War, the Mayor of New York City
 >proposed to make NYC, Long Island and Staten Island the independent free
 >state of Tri-Insula.
 >	Shameless plug:  I incorporated a lot of this stuff into an =
upcoming
 >alternate history novel series, including Tri-Insula, which I renamed
 >Islandia

You'll be hearing from Erica about that . . .

mjw

because the projected state is almost entirely composed of islands.
 >B-)

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