Article: All roads lead to Albany; Across this great nation, towns and cities share a great name.(Life-Today)

Byline: TOM KEYSER Staff Writer

If it's not the snow and cold, then it's the ice and rain. Crazy, isn't it, our choice to live where winter keeps slapping us silly?

It's enough to make one wonder what it's like somewhere else say, in Albany.

Oh, Albany, you say; you know about Albany, the one with The Egg. But what about Albany, Texas, where wildfires threaten, and, according to a town official, it hasn't rained in three months?

Oh, Albany ... which one? We found 22 in this country and looked deeper at the 10 with populations of 1,000 or more. Four and maybe five of those Albanys took their name from Albany, N.Y., the biggest, oldest ...

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