Where were you when the sewers exploded?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, James A. Landau wrote:
>
> It is possible that "hiking the Appalachian Trail" was a deliberate invention
> on the part of some staffer to claim that the Governor was still in the State
> and therefore still acting as Governor, even though he was incommunicado.

Except that the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through South Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail


--Ben Zimmer

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