Recently during a conversation with James McGroarty, who is a lifelong friend and shared the same growing up neighborhood as the Clark kids, he made an observation about local people’s varying perspectives on our changing town. As usual, he was addressing me as “Polander” because he knows my family tree all the way down to the roots and knows it is a legitimate tag even for someone named Clark. He simply stated there is a big difference between being local and being native. It immediately hit me what he was talking about. It is not meant to be disrespectful to anyone but merely ...