Looking for Mid-West Browncoats

POSTED BY: Luvrhino
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 03:41
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LUVRHINO

Thursday, April 7, 2005 7:16 PM

I am starting to believe that I am the only one....Please let me know I am not! I am planning another Shindig to be held at Inconjunction, July 4th weekend in Indianapolis. Last year the turn out was huge, including Jason Carter, but there was only one other true Browncoat besides myself. I would love to see any/all Midwest Browncoats make it this year! I also would be interested in thowing one at the Star Wars Celebration III later this month....let me know who will be in town and we can pull it together.

AERRIN

Thursday, April 7, 2005 8:47 PM

You're certainly not the only one. There's quite a large mailing list for Ohio Browncoats ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly-ohio/).

I'm technically an Indiana Browncoat now, I suppose, as I'm in Bloomington at IU. No clue where I'll be on the 4th though, alas. But I'm sure you'll find some by poking around!

THIEFJEHAT

Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:51 PM

I am an Indianapolis Browncoat

Do not fear me. Ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony.

LUVRHINO

Friday, April 8, 2005 3:33 PM

I am also in Indianapolis, and I'm amazed that someone else in this city has the good taste to be a Browncoat!

LOSTINTHEBLACK

Friday, April 8, 2005 4:21 PM

Ohio? Indiana? I'd hardly call that "Midwest." I'm a North Dakota native myself (though I'm currently in Montana for college). When it comes to labelling an area "Midwest," we're fairly elitist.
There's a definite lack of willing Firefly converts up here in the frigid and scorching north. Although the shows jargon sounds disturbingly familiar...

DARKJESTER

Sunday, April 10, 2005 6:09 PM

Sorry, but Noth Dakota is in the Great Plains. I really don't know why it would be included in the area called the Midwest. This is the first time I've ever heard of a state west of Iowa called Midwestern. I was taught in school (in Indiana, admitedly) that:
Just like there were Northern and Southern states, in 1800 there were Eastern (east coast) and Western states (and territories), with the US territory stopping at the Great River (the Mississippi). Pennsylvania and Carolina (pre Civil War, remember) were East, while Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky and Michigan were west. Then came the Louisiana Purchase. Suddenly, the area west of the Great River was US territory, and what was West was now in the middle. So the former West became the Middle-West, or Midwest, and the name stuck.
As a further note, use Google to see where the Midwest Museum of Art is located.
I'm not saying that North Dakota isn't in the midwest - I found several newspaper articles on-line that mention it as Midwestern. I'm just sayin' that I'd never before heard of it being so.

Edited a day later to add: VIRGINIA! VIRGINIA! VIRGINIA was the state that split in the Civil War era, not the Carolinas. Major brain fart there. Everyone, as you were.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

EMBERS

Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:03 PM

I'm down in the Southeast corner of Iowa...
and wishing someone in the Chicago area would organize a big shindig for September 30th
(hint hint)

but you know? I do think Nebraska considers itself to be mid-West...

SUINEGAGPF

Sunday, April 10, 2005 8:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
I'm down in the Southeast corner of Iowa...
and wishing someone in the Chicago area would organize a big shindig for September 30th
(hint hint)

Not sure, but I think most of the Chicagoland Browncoats will be out in LA on Sept. 30th. Tentatively, that's where the shindig of all shindigs is supposed to be.

-Dave

THIEFJEHAT

Monday, April 11, 2005 2:51 AM

Hey alright another Indianapolis firefly fan. I was starting to think the only 2 here were myself and my neighbor I converted.

Do not fear me. Ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony.

YT

Monday, April 11, 2005 2:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DarkJester:
This is the first time I've ever heard of a state west of Iowa called Midwestern.

I'll second that. The Midwest is the West that was. In my travels in & reading about the area, I learned that the Midwest was the area opened to overseas trade by the Erie Canal, to whit: the upper Great Lakes (ie above Niagara Falls), and the Ohio & northern Mississippi (ie north of the Missouri) River valleys, and the states bordering thereupon. The Dakotas are in the Great Plains, & Montana's in the mountains (thought the name gave it away).

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Stevie Wonder, "Higher Ground"

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