A emailer put me on to a recent post by local Johnny Come-Lately Ari Herzog on his blog. I don’t read his blog as i find it foolish, but i checked it out today. Ari, who has lived here a few months as I understand it, acutally has the nerve to ask if we like the name “Newburyport”, or if we should call it something else. Now, I’m sure this was said as a joke, but it is fairly disrespectful to those of us who have lived here, who make it home, and who actually love to live in their home town. To suggest that it be called “Yeatville” is truly a slap in the face to long time residents and natives. We’ve had to suffer through enough gentrification due to constant influx of newcomers, but it really bothers me, and a lot of other locals/natives, when we see stuff like this. Ari, move back to Cambridge and save the planet, and leave us ignorant townies our City’s name.
