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Article: Don't homogenize Hampton Roads by bulldozing history.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2007
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Byline: AMY CASTLEBERRY
By Amy Castleberry
A few years ago there was an amusing list in your newspaper : "You know you're from Hampton Roads, if "
At the time, my answer would have been, " you don't call it Hampton Roads." There seems to be a trend in stripping Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach of their individuality, lumping them all together into a vanilla melting pot.
Growing up in this area, "Tidewater" was the umbrella of choice, not a reference to shipping lanes. There is a murkier substrata to this scenario, a movement toward changing the face of who we are by irreversibly changing the architectural landscape that gives ...