Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The OTHER other Brooklyn

Followers of the Brooklyn Paper are aware that reporter Gersh Kuntzman (who was fantastically informative in the documentary on combovers)- is travelling west to Brooklyn, Iowa to cover the caucuses there. The paper is calling it "the other Brooklyn". Well it might be, but what about the OTHER other Brooklyn? The one to our east? Huh? East? Well yes, and north... over in the Atlantic Time Zone in beautiful Nova Scotia, Canada there is the OTHER other Brooklyn:

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What goes on in Brooklyn, NS? Not quite as much as BK, IA, as I found when I passed through over the summer:
However, this sleepy town was home to country legend Hank Snow. And interestingly enough, there is a hockey rink there called The Brooklyn Arena.