My sister called me yesterday to tell me to watch City Confidential on A&E: an episode entitled "New London, Connecticut." It's a true crime show, her kind of thing not mine, but when she called me seven minutes in, there had just been snippets of Old Lyme. So now I'm watching.
It sets New London in its social place among the suburbs around it with a lifelong New London resident saying how those in surrounding towns look down in New London and a woman who married into an Old Lyme family saying that she will probably never be accepted by lifelongers as an Old Lymer. To the first, I say New London is a city, not a town, so yes, townfolk are afraid of it; to the second, I hope a native of anywhere is proud to be a native of that place. I recognized which scenes were from Old Lyme--mostly from along Lyme Street, easy-peasy, even if that café wasn't open in 1994 when the crime took place. Finally the narrator acknowledges that not everyone in the surrounding towns has a yacht the size of an aircraft carrier. Thank you.
Wow, listening to these people I understand why I have an accent in Colorado. I never thought so, though I accepted people's saying so. I expected to hear a Midwest twang here, but I seldom do, probably because so few people are native to Denver. Someone just said "vister" instead of "vista." Ack.
I swear the narrator is stoned. There is no other reason for him to slur and use slang.