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"Townie" is a beautiful piece of work, both shocking and understated.

They escort him up the bank, shooting daggers at the townie cops.

Then Sean Gunn, who portrayed the eccentric Stars Hollow townie, joined in.

The townie kid music was mostly punk and hardcore, and the college bands were a little artier.

Our girl is a townie, "programmed by generation after generation of workers" to settle for a menial job.

Starring Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen (as the townie who gives him a lift) and Chris Cooper as Salinger.

A married townie whom Camille knew when she was in school pressures her to take a walk alone with him.

In Andre Dubus III's best-selling memoir, "Townie," he describes his difficult childhood with a certain amount of complicated nostalgia.

He began to feel that he had been used, provoked into the fight by some of Macon's townie Baptist ministers.

I used to attend my share of Chuck Brown shows where would inevitably run into another townie, one John Stanton.

Convenience makes towers uniquely fit for video games in general, then—not just for some townie like me who's overawed by scale.

And, of course, Archie is on trial for the murder of Shadow Lake townie Cassidy (Harrison MacDonald), whom he didn't actually kill.

So he sets off, with the aid of a sprightly, sensible townie, DeeDee (Stefania Owen), for the author's home in New Hampshire.

" Two months later she is "the artsy, home-schooled Canadian girl who hung out with cross-dressers and dated a gothish townie.

In Andre Dubus III's "Townie" (2011), his father, Andre Dubus, loves the Boston Red Sox but never takes his son to a game.

Our situation was very similar: repressive Tory government; shit, violent, townie night-clubs, and a real desire for something that was exciting and our own.

Ten years ago he was simply the lanky 20-something who was a borderline townie on TV, now he's a movie star with a really great beard.

I taught painting at the community center and took my nieces to soccer practice and spent my Saturday nights at the one townie bar that served rosé.

Kathy Bates also turned up, as a bizarrely adorned local townie, while Wes Bentley appeared at the last moment as a leader of an outlandish local woodland cult.

The Townie has eight gears like my old bike, and the assisted electric boost tops out at 20 MPH, so the actual sensation of riding was still there.

I was fine on the pants question because the Townie didn't need oiling, so there was no risk of a stain on the jeans or trousers I wore.

The Townie Commute Go bike comes outfitted with "pedal assist" and can be customized with all sorts of accessories — bags, cup holders or a sunflower for the handlebars.

Southampton native Tim Bishop held this seat for Democrats from 2002 to 2014, but his family had lived in the area for centuries, so he could claim townie status.

Leonard's goal for his website is to show his audience what it's like to become a "townie," whether it's living in a new community for six months or a year.

And the townie hijinks — Kirk crashing Taylor's car into Luke's diner — are trying too hard to be whimsical; there's so much effort onscreen that the show feels tense where it wants to be comforting. 155.

Set in a gentrifying contemporary Boston marked by professional haves and townie have-nots, the movie boasts a lived-in sense of place, and is unusually attuned to the travails of the urban white working class.

Sean Gunn, a series regular, whose perpetually awkward character Kirk Gleason was a Stars Hollow townie of all trades, helmed a cat adoption and fundraiser for the New Milford Animal Welfare Society inside the main tent.

I returned the Townie at the end of my two-week test ride and resolved to fix up my old bike and see how that goes instead of getting a new one in the short-term.

Plus, we get Patricia Clarkson in a standout turn as Camille's deliciously repressive mother, an old-money townie who's keeping Camille's younger sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen) under a tight leash while the killer — or killers — run loose.

I think it was the first one that had recurring characters from the other movies: Chubbs from Happy Gilmore is in it, Whitey from Eight Crazy Nights—oh, the 'You can do it!' townie character is in it.

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Dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings are this author's stock in trade, but she warms them up by establishing the close friendship between Sadie Loman, of the real-estate-owning Lomans, and Avery Greer, a rebellious townie.

Neither a townie nor a rich-kid summer resident, the skinny but cocky Daniel takes notice of two fellow teenagers: the hunky drug dealer and local legend, Hunter (Alex Roe), and the preternaturally attractive tough girl, McKayla (Maika Monroe).

Then she reminds him that he doesn't have to pretend to be normal in Midnight and that he should seriously ask his supernatural townie friends for help with this whole home infestation thing before it blows up in his face.

A kid outside a cinema called me a mosher, so I called him a townie, so he punched me in the throat, so I hit him on the arm, and an usher broke up the only fistfight I've ever been in.

But the movie's only intriguing dynamic crumbles when Fassbender falls for a waitress/teacher (Portman, who talks like an Austin townie for her first scene, then abandons the accent altogether), while Gosling falls in with an extraordinarily wealthy society woman (Blanchett).

Jack is a particularly mediocre protagonist, with the combination of a bland performance and inconsistent script making him unconvincing as an underdog townie surrounded by more privileged students at Belgrave, or even as a straight man struggling to keep up with the pace of mystical reveals.

Everyone except Day was in some sort of romantic relationship—Marie with a townie who rode a motorbike, Willa with a curator at the Fitzwilliam, Theo with a guide who led tours of Dickensian London, Ed and Grainne with each other, and now Flordeliza with her Bettencourt boy.

An undereducated townie who's new to country life, she's determined to make a place for herself there — not because she loves her work on the farm, which she doesn't, but because she is smitten with Jimmy, the taciturn farmer who is the father of the child she's carrying.

Jack and his grandpa Pete "Pops" Morton (Matt Frewer) clearly believe the Blue Rose is a regular old organization of high-powered skullduggery like the Skull And Bones society at Yale or Dear White People's Order Of X. The Mortons, a working class family, hope Belgrave's secret society will open up doors for townie Jack.

Then I got into the actual festival with a couple of my friends and we were all, there was like four or five of us, and every year they needed townie kids, like in "Midsummer Night's Dream" you have little kids running around as fairies or in "Richard III" you need 10 soldiers, 220 soldiers for the battle scenes, or any of the history plays.

There's just me and Martin; Joe, who soon tells us he quit his job in Washington, DC just to come to New York City and spread the Trump gospel; a younger guy named Steve* who looks like a townie version of Christian Slater; a golden-maned, argyle-socked mini Trump in the corner drinking a whole bottle of wine by himself; an incredibly awkward couple off in the leather chairs in the corner who appear to be on the kind of stiff, banal date that preludes most softcore porn movies from the 1980s; and an older, glowering man in a suit whose sole preoccupation seems to be staring at me and Martin from a few tables away.

East Providence High School's Townie Athletics consists of various seasonal sport teams along with seasonal after- school activities and clubs. East Providence High School includes the following sports and activities.

The album was announced on September 16 alongside the release of the second single, "Townie". Two music videos were released for "Townie", the first directed by Allyssa Yohana and premiered on Rookie on November 9, 2014, and the second directed by Faye Orlove and premiered on The Fader on March 9, 2015. She released two more singles, "I Don't Smoke" on September 29 and "I Will" on October 21. The album was reissued with four new bonus tracks on April 7, 2015 through Don Giovanni Records.

Commercially available examples in 2009 : Electra Townie and Amsterdam series; Day 6 Comfort Bicycles, the Giant Suede, the Trek Pure, the K2 Big Easy, the Sun Bicycles Ruskin and Rover, and the Rans Fusion. The following bicycles were commercially available in the United States in model year 2007: From Rans the Fusion, Cruz, Dynamik, Citi, 700X and Zenetik; from Electra the Townie series; from Lightfoot Cycles the Surefoot, from K2 the Big Easy series; from TREK the Pure series; from Cannondale the Daytripper series; from DelSol the LowBoy series; from Raleigh the Gruv series; from Giant the Suede series; from Sun the Drifter; and from Sims the Sea Breeze.

A major subplot in the novel is Sean's debt to Rupert, a violent townie drug dealer who often threatens to kill him. The character is the brother of the notorious Patrick Bateman and has also appeared in Ellis's other novels, American Psycho, The Informers and Glamorama.

Raffy was born a Townie, and has parents who live there, but attends the Jellicoe School. Her parents are teachers in the town of Jellicoe and she went to Primary School with Chaz Santangelo. She was his best friend there, and even his romantic interest. Both their families are good friends.

It was the first fair to jury an outdoor show in 1965 and in 2000 was a partner organization involved in the creation of the online jurying system Zapplication, now in use by hundreds of fairs across the country. The fair has initiated events like the Townie Street Party, a free kick off event taking place the Monday before the start of the fairs and gives the community a chance to celebrate the art fairs before the crowds come to town. The Dart for Art is a timed one-mile race featuring competitive elite runners followed by a community race and held in conjunction with the Townie Street Party. Other programs like the Youth Art Fair give young artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work.

In 2006, The Shirts recorded and released their first album in over 25 years at the studio Thorne had opened. It was titled, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn. As of 2014, both Racippo and Lamonica have spin off projects. 'Bob of the Shirts', with Zeeek on drums, released their first album, Townie, on Rottentotoof Records.

Source: Dubus, Andre III. Townie: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, page 146. Dubus carried personal firearms to protect himself and those around him, until the night in the late 1980s, when he almost shot a man who was in a drunken argument with his son, Andre, outside a bar in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Dubus, Andre III, Townie: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, pages 237-248. Dubus was seriously injured in a car accident on the night of July 23, 1986. He was driving from Boston to his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and he stopped to assist two disabled motorists—brother and sister Luis and Luz Santiago.

It was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, a Golden Globe and 39 other prizes. It won 13 nominations. Townie was No. 4 on the New York Times best-seller list and included in the Editors Choice section.

Ben Cotton (born July 26, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor. His most notable roles are on the TV series Stargate Atlantis playing scientist Dr. Kavanagh, his portrayal of "Leon Bell" in the game Dead Rising 2, Shane Pierce, the local townie, on CBS's Harper's Island and Lt. Coker Fasjovik in Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome.

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Hartford Public High School. Originally, he chose to go to Trinity College, but transferred because he felt like a "townie". Rome played piano in local dance bands such as Eddie Wittstein's and was already writing music while studying architecture and law at Yale University. While at Yale, he also pledged to Tau Epsilon Phi.

Furthermore, life in > general seemed so restricted. When I started writing music, I was not > satisfied with the two choices that were given to me as an 18-year-old. The > first choice was go to college in order to work your life away at an office. > The other choice was to be a townie and work at a machine shop or restaurant > in my hometown.

The stones were promptly righted and "planted" again and the culprit punished. Ongoing unsympathetic use by both local youth and townie pagans, such as the creation of numerous fire pits and the leaving of litter and broken glass after the festivals, does nothing for the atmosphere of this site.”White Dragon Pagan Magazine dated 30 October 2004 In the beginning there may have been some thirty stone pillars.

With Zoe and Russell's help, Jimmy attacks the Townies' hangout, where he defeats their leader, Edgar Munsen (Jan Milewicz). Upon revealing Gary's deception, Jimmy earns Edgar's respect, who offers him Townie support. Soon after, Gary and his followers take Crabblesnitch hostage, sparking a full-blown war between the cliques. The Townies and Russell help Jimmy neutralize the clique leaders, allowing him to chase Gary to main building's roof.

Jason Marsden (Jason Marsden), Eric's best friend from the age of three. He is often more calm than Eric, and can either be his voice of reason or the one who gets him into trouble. He is quite fond of girls, as is Eric. He was on the show from 1993–1995; he left the show after graduating and going to college, leaving Eric at home to be a "townie", and was never referenced again.

Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) is a student with aspirations to become a lawyer. A "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. His best friends at college are his love interest Chloe (Leslie Bibb), and Will (Hill Harper). Will is the coxswain of the Bulldog 8's rowing team and Luke is the captain.

Stricken with grief, Luke begins to suspect Will was in fact murdered by Caleb. Caleb also believes that he is guilty, suspecting Will died as a direct consequence of Caleb hitting him. Luke enlists his 'townie' friends from childhood to help solve the mystery. His friends are first unwilling to work with him, as he missed one of their birthday parties, so as an apology and a bribe he gives them a 1963 Ford Thunderbird.

The culmination of their hard work is tested in their last game of the season as they play the Dillon Panthers led by J.D. McCoy. In an amazing show of perseverance, the East Dillon Lions defeat the Dillon Panthers, ruining the Panthers' playoff chances. In season four, Matt Saracen struggles with staying in Dillon and living as a townie. He turned down an art school in Chicago and is instead studying art at the local technical college.

Ben Dayan was born in Kiryat Shmona on July 12, 1981 to a family of Moroccan extraction. Her parents divorced when she was 12 years old, and she moved in with her grandmother when she was 15. After being expelled from Danzinger High School in Kiryat Shmona, she began attending the nearby kibbutz high school in Kfar Bloom. The experience of being a Mizrahi "townie" in this more privileged Ashkenazi setting was of seminal importance to her later career and activism.

They meet up with some townie girls (one of whom is played by Elizabeth Daily) and eventually end up playing in a cemetery operated by one of the girls' undertaker father, where they come upon a fallen Vietnam War soldier's tombstone. They sleep at the former movie set of Giant. The next morning, with the car repaired with a front end from a different make and model, the Groovers continue. Phil wants to go back, prompting Kenneth to shout angrily at him.

His father's family first emigrated to Ann Arbor and settled on Spring street in the early 1890s. They are of German ancestry. While in Ann Arbor, Zemke's great grandfather owned and operated The Orient, a well-known "townie" pool hall and barber shop on the corner of North Main and Ann streets. The Orient In 1935, his grandfather Frederick "Fritz" Zemke left the University of Michigan to start a business out of his parents' Spring Street garage, operating vending machines and jukeboxes in local establishments.

Later on, this is also reaffirmed in "The Townie". In season 4, Damien tries to help Blair and Dan find Juliet when he finds out that he sold Juliet a large amount of drugs such as cocaine, pills and ether which was used to drug Serena. At one time, he started to sell sleeping pills to Eric. To get revenge on Ben, when the latter has threatened him to stay away from Serena and her family, he befriends Eric and comes up with a scheme to send Ben back to jail, unsuccessfully.

This was his first role as an adult. In 1972, Hammond appeared as Peter Linder in Skyjacked. In 1973, he made a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch, in season 4, episode #090, "The Subject Was Noses", as the high school hunk, Doug Simpson, who loses interest in Marcia after her tragic football accident. That year, he also appeared The Waltons episode, "The Townie", as Theodore Claypool, Jr. After making the transition from juvenile to young leading man, he spent several seasons in daytime soaps such as General Hospital.

Homer, taking pity on Marge, decides to take up work at his father's popular laser tag warehouse in order to pay for it, where he is abused by the children. At Springfield University, Marge is impressed with her surroundings and with her radical feminist revisionist history professor Stefane August, despite Homer's disapproval. The episode's second promotional image, featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic Marge quickly admires August, and both form a mutual attraction. August begins manipulating Marge by telling her Homer is a simple "townie" who would not appreciate her intellect.

A mix of yuppie and upper-middle-class gentrification has influenced much of the area, as it has in many of Boston's neighborhoods, but Charlestown still maintains a strong Irish-American population and "Townie" identity. In the 21st century, Charlestown's diversity has expanded dramatically, along with growing rates of the very poor and very wealthy. Today Charlestown is a largely residential neighborhood, with much housing near the waterfront, overlooking the Boston skyline. Charlestown is home to many historic sites, hospitals and organizations, with access from the Orange Line Sullivan Square or Community College stops or the I-93 expressway.

In February 2001, Lane, who by now was seven months pregnant with her fourth child, was interviewed by police. During the police interview, Lane claimed that she had given Tegan to the baby's father, a man called Andrew Norris (or Morris), with whom she claimed to have had a brief affair. According to Lane, the affair took place at a unit block in Balmain on Friday nights after a drinking session at the Town Hall pub ("The Townie"). Lane alleges in her police interviews Norris's long-term partner, Melanie, also lived there as she often saw female apparel strewn around the unit.

Returning the favor, Sandler appeared in a cameo to spout the same line in Schneider's The Animal, wherein, as a reference, Adam Sandler as a Townie utters: "Yeah! You can do it!" Schneider narrated Sandler's 2002 animated movie Eight Crazy Nights, and voiced the part of a Chinese waiter. Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Lady bike, beach cruiser by Electra Bicycle Company In 2003, the company introduced its Townie model, using a crank forward geometry, marketed as Flat Foot Technology, where a seated rider's feet can rest flat on the ground -- combining aspects of cruiser geometry with recumbent geometry, moving the pedals forward and the seat back. Once the rider starts pedaling, they will experience proper leg extension as a result of the relaxed seat angle and the forward placement of the pedals. The crank forward design was noted mitigating a new cyclists' fear of falling off the bike."It's True: You don't forget, even after 25 years".

Men from Maine was a one- to two-minute comedy segment, opening with soap opera organ music and Loren stating something varying along the lines of, "Welcome to another thrilling episode of the exciting adventures of Men from Maine. As today's action packed drama begins...". Episodes typically revolve around the two main characters Lem (played by Tom) and Ephus (played by Wally), and other residents of Bangor, Maine, such as Ephus' wife Effie and son Ephus Junior, Doc Cider (after Dock Sider shoes) and Pastor Fazool (after pasta e fagioli). The same characters have been used in songs about Maine on the segment "Tom's Townie Tunes" (see below).

North Road handlebars One of the oldest type of handlebars, and perhaps the most ubiquitous for town bikes, this type of bar was named after the North Road Cycling Club in London and then used on three- speed and single speed Raleighs, Schwinns, and other three-speed bikes well into the 1980s, as well as various European utility bikes and roadsters. They are also known as "townie", or "tourist" bars. North Road bars are more or less swept back toward the rider; in extreme cases each grip ends nearly parallel to the other and the bike's frame. They have recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity on some hybrid bicycles, city bikes, and comfort models.

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, making him the first African American male to do so. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate School. While Zack meets his first true girlfriend during his training, a young "townie" named Paula (Winger), he also comes into conflict with the hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley (Gossett Jr.) training his class. The film was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford.

Townsend Whelen (March 6, 1877 – December 23, 1961), called "Townie" by his friends, was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman. Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career. He was a contributing editor to Sports Afield, American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Guns & Ammo, and other magazines, and author of Suggestions to Military Riflemen, The American Rifle, Telescopic Rifle Sights, The Hunting Rifle, Small Arms and Ballistics, Hunting Big Game (of which he was the editor), Amateur Gunsmithing, and Why Not Load Your Own. An autobiography, Mr. Rifleman, was begun by Whelen, but finished by his family and published after his death.

Colonel Townsend "Townie" Whelen (1877–1961) was an American soldier, hunter, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman. Retiring from a career in the Army in 1936, Whelen became a leading outdoor writer, contributing to various sporting publications including American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Guns & Ammo, Outdoor Life and Sports Afield, as well as writing a number of books on hunting and firearms. Whelen hunted all his life, taking his first deer in 1892 and his last 66 years later, over his life he shot numerous big game animals including brown bear, black bear, moose, wapiti, caribou, white tailed deer, mule deer, black tailed deer, bighorn sheep and mountain goat all over Canada, throughout the Rocky Mountains and in the Adirondacks. Whelen developed a number of rifle cartridges based on the .

They were merely trying to prevent an underage sale." Reporters obtained an email written by Emily Crawford, an employee for the school's communications department, telling her bosses that she found the protests "very disturbing," saying, "I have talked to 15 townie friends who are [persons of color] and they're disgusted and embarrassed by the protest. In their view, the kid was breaking the law, period... To them this is not a race issue at all." During the trial, witness Eddie Holoway, a black man who worked his way through technical college while working at Gibson’s Bakery, said that the racist allegations against his former employer were untrue. "In my life, I have been a marginalized person, so I know what it feels like to be called something that you know you’re not.

Having united all the cliques under his rule and restored peace to Bullworth, Jimmy boasts in his newfound glory and respect. Meanwhile, Gary convinces the cliques to pressure Jimmy into vandalizing Bullworth's town hall, and recruits the "Townies", a group of former Bullworth students who seek revenge against the school, to play a series of dangerous pranks on the cliques, so that they would turn on Jimmy, believing his lack of leadership skill led to this. Upon informing Crabblesnitch of Jimmy vandalazing the town hall, he is appointed head boy, while Jimmy is expelled. Seeking revenge, Jimmy meets Townie member Zoe Taylor (Molly Fox) and helps her get revenge on predatory Bullworth gym teacher Mr. Burton (Michael Boyle), who got her expelled when she accused him of sexually harassing her.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 returns to Maryland's Black Hills region in the wake of The Blair Witch Project and the prodigious media coverage devoted to its conflation of documentary style and supernatural legend, fans and curiosity-seekers have descended upon the movie's real-life setting of Burkittsville, Maryland. Jeff Patterson (Jeffrey Donovan), a black-sheep "townie" only recently released from a mental institution, has turned his obsession with the Blair Witch into a business and has lured four young people to Burkittsville for a tour of the Witch's purported Black Hills' haunts. Jeff's clients are also fixated on the film, for reasons they themselves may not fully comprehend. Erica Geerson (Erica Leerhsen) is a practicing Wiccan who has immersed herself in Blair Witch mythology, even though she decries the film's portrayal of her fellow witches.

Andre Dubus was married three times and fathered six children. His son Andre Dubus III is also an author; his most noted book is the novel House of Sand and Fog (1999), which was both a finalist for the National Book Award and the basis for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same title. In 2011, Andre Dubus III published a memoir of his life, Townie, which tells of growing up in Haverhill and deals extensively with his relationship with his father and the impoverished conditions faced by his mother and siblings after Dubus left the family for a student. Dubus was the subject of an essay by Kacey Kowars entitled "A Celebration of Words," and was also paid tribute to in Andre Dubus: Memoirs, a book edited by Kowars and featuring authors such as James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus II, and Andre Dubus III.

Set in the fictional Camden College in New Hampshire, the film opens at the "End of the World" party, where students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film student upstairs to have sex and passes out; she wakes to find herself being raped by a townie while the film student records it, and reflects on how she had planned to lose her virginity to Victor, her now ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile, Paul, who is bisexual, tries to have sex with a jock, only to be bashed when it turns out the jock is deeply closeted. A bruised and beaten Sean is shown drinking a whole bottle of Jack Daniel's, tearing up a series of purple letters, before approaching and having sex with a blonde girl at the party.

After Saving Grace, two television film prequels to the film were made by BSkyB: Doc Martin and Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie, in which viewers learn that Bamford, a successful obstetrician (played by Martin Clunes in each), finds that his wife has been carrying on extramarital affairs behind his back with his three best friends. After confronting her with the news, he decides to leave London and heads for Cornwall, which he remembers fondly from his youth. Shortly after he arrives, he gets involved in the mystery of the "Jellymaker" and, following the departure of the village's resident GP, decides to stay in Port Isaac and fill the gap himself. Clunes' company tried selling a series on the same theme to ITV who liked it, but felt the character of Martin Bamford needed a stronger defining characteristic than just being a "townie" who is a little out of his depth in the country.

Around the 1860s an influx of Irish immigrants arrived in Charlestown. The area long remained an Irish and Catholic stronghold similar to South Boston, Somerville, and Dorchester, to the extent that the informal demonym "Townie" continues to imply the working-class Irish, as opposed to newer immigrants. During the Civil War, over 26,000 men joined the Union Army and Navy at the Navy Yard, which was also responsible for constructing some of the most famous vessels of the conflict: the Merrimack, the Hartford, and the Monadnock. Following the war, the city commissioned Martin Milmore to construct its civil war memorial, dedicated in 1872 and still standing in the community's Training Field. The city developed a water supply from the Mystic Lakes and, on October 7, 1873, a vote was held to determine whether Charlestown should leave Middlesex County and join Boston as part of Suffolk County. Out of its 32,040 residents, 2240 voted in support of the merger and 1947 opposed. Boston residents also approved the question, 5,960–1,868."The Result in Figures", The Boston Globe, p. 5, October 8, 1873.

"Townie" is a beautiful piece of work, both shocking and understated. from The New York Times
They escort him up the bank, shooting daggers at the townie cops. from Mashable
Then Sean Gunn, who portrayed the eccentric Stars Hollow townie, joined in. from Refinery 29
The townie kid music was mostly punk and hardcore, and the college bands were a little artier. from Vice
Our girl is a townie, "programmed by generation after generation of workers" to settle for a menial job. from The New York Times
Starring Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen (as the townie who gives him a lift) and Chris Cooper as Salinger. from The New York Times
A married townie whom Camille knew when she was in school pressures her to take a walk alone with him. from The New York Times
In Andre Dubus III's best-selling memoir, "Townie," he describes his difficult childhood with a certain amount of complicated nostalgia. from The New York Times
He began to feel that he had been used, provoked into the fight by some of Macon's townie Baptist ministers. from New Yorker
I used to attend my share of Chuck Brown shows where would inevitably run into another townie, one John Stanton. from Politico
Convenience makes towers uniquely fit for video games in general, then—not just for some townie like me who's overawed by scale. from Vice
And, of course, Archie is on trial for the murder of Shadow Lake townie Cassidy (Harrison MacDonald), whom he didn't actually kill. from Refinery 29
So he sets off, with the aid of a sprightly, sensible townie, DeeDee (Stefania Owen), for the author's home in New Hampshire. from The New York Times
" Two months later she is "the artsy, home-schooled Canadian girl who hung out with cross-dressers and dated a gothish townie. from The New York Times
In Andre Dubus III's "Townie" (2011), his father, Andre Dubus, loves the Boston Red Sox but never takes his son to a game. from The New York Times
Our situation was very similar: repressive Tory government; shit, violent, townie night-clubs, and a real desire for something that was exciting and our own. from Vice
Ten years ago he was simply the lanky 20-something who was a borderline townie on TV, now he's a movie star with a really great beard. from Refinery 29
I taught painting at the community center and took my nieces to soccer practice and spent my Saturday nights at the one townie bar that served rosé. from Wired
Kathy Bates also turned up, as a bizarrely adorned local townie, while Wes Bentley appeared at the last moment as a leader of an outlandish local woodland cult. from Vox
The Townie has eight gears like my old bike, and the assisted electric boost tops out at 20 MPH, so the actual sensation of riding was still there. from Refinery 29
I was fine on the pants question because the Townie didn't need oiling, so there was no risk of a stain on the jeans or trousers I wore. from Refinery 29
The Townie Commute Go bike comes outfitted with "pedal assist" and can be customized with all sorts of accessories — bags, cup holders or a sunflower for the handlebars. from CNBC
Southampton native Tim Bishop held this seat for Democrats from 2002 to 2014, but his family had lived in the area for centuries, so he could claim townie status. from Vice
Leonard's goal for his website is to show his audience what it's like to become a "townie," whether it's living in a new community for six months or a year. from CNBC
And the townie hijinks — Kirk crashing Taylor's car into Luke's diner — are trying too hard to be whimsical; there's so much effort onscreen that the show feels tense where it wants to be comforting. 155. from Vox
Set in a gentrifying contemporary Boston marked by professional haves and townie have-nots, the movie boasts a lived-in sense of place, and is unusually attuned to the travails of the urban white working class. from Vox
Sean Gunn, a series regular, whose perpetually awkward character Kirk Gleason was a Stars Hollow townie of all trades, helmed a cat adoption and fundraiser for the New Milford Animal Welfare Society inside the main tent. from Vice
I returned the Townie at the end of my two-week test ride and resolved to fix up my old bike and see how that goes instead of getting a new one in the short-term. from Refinery 29
Plus, we get Patricia Clarkson in a standout turn as Camille's deliciously repressive mother, an old-money townie who's keeping Camille's younger sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen) under a tight leash while the killer — or killers — run loose. from Vox
I think it was the first one that had recurring characters from the other movies: Chubbs from Happy Gilmore is in it, Whitey from Eight Crazy Nights—oh, the 'You can do it!' townie character is in it. from Vice
Electra Townie 3i EQ Step-Through Women's Bike for $569 ($131 off): This is a great price for a comfy, upright commuter bike that includes matching fenders, LED lights, and a smooth, reliable Shimano Nexus internal rear hub. from Wired
Dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings are this author's stock in trade, but she warms them up by establishing the close friendship between Sadie Loman, of the real-estate-owning Lomans, and Avery Greer, a rebellious townie. from The New York Times
Neither a townie nor a rich-kid summer resident, the skinny but cocky Daniel takes notice of two fellow teenagers: the hunky drug dealer and local legend, Hunter (Alex Roe), and the preternaturally attractive tough girl, McKayla (Maika Monroe). from The New York Times
Then she reminds him that he doesn't have to pretend to be normal in Midnight and that he should seriously ask his supernatural townie friends for help with this whole home infestation thing before it blows up in his face. from Refinery 29
A kid outside a cinema called me a mosher, so I called him a townie, so he punched me in the throat, so I hit him on the arm, and an usher broke up the only fistfight I've ever been in. from Vice
But the movie's only intriguing dynamic crumbles when Fassbender falls for a waitress/teacher (Portman, who talks like an Austin townie for her first scene, then abandons the accent altogether), while Gosling falls in with an extraordinarily wealthy society woman (Blanchett). from Mashable
Jack is a particularly mediocre protagonist, with the combination of a bland performance and inconsistent script making him unconvincing as an underdog townie surrounded by more privileged students at Belgrave, or even as a straight man struggling to keep up with the pace of mystical reveals. from The Verge
Everyone except Day was in some sort of romantic relationship—Marie with a townie who rode a motorbike, Willa with a curator at the Fitzwilliam, Theo with a guide who led tours of Dickensian London, Ed and Grainne with each other, and now Flordeliza with her Bettencourt boy. from Vice
An undereducated townie who's new to country life, she's determined to make a place for herself there — not because she loves her work on the farm, which she doesn't, but because she is smitten with Jimmy, the taciturn farmer who is the father of the child she's carrying. from The New York Times
Jack and his grandpa Pete "Pops" Morton (Matt Frewer) clearly believe the Blue Rose is a regular old organization of high-powered skullduggery like the Skull And Bones society at Yale or Dear White People's Order Of X. The Mortons, a working class family, hope Belgrave's secret society will open up doors for townie Jack. from Refinery 29
Then I got into the actual festival with a couple of my friends and we were all, there was like four or five of us, and every year they needed townie kids, like in "Midsummer Night's Dream" you have little kids running around as fairies or in "Richard III" you need 10 soldiers, 220 soldiers for the battle scenes, or any of the history plays. from Vox
There's just me and Martin; Joe, who soon tells us he quit his job in Washington, DC just to come to New York City and spread the Trump gospel; a younger guy named Steve* who looks like a townie version of Christian Slater; a golden-maned, argyle-socked mini Trump in the corner drinking a whole bottle of wine by himself; an incredibly awkward couple off in the leather chairs in the corner who appear to be on the kind of stiff, banal date that preludes most softcore porn movies from the 1980s; and an older, glowering man in a suit whose sole preoccupation seems to be staring at me and Martin from a few tables away. from Vice
East Providence High School's Townie Athletics consists of various seasonal sport teams along with seasonal after- school activities and clubs. East Providence High School includes the following sports and activities.
The album was announced on September 16 alongside the release of the second single, "Townie". Two music videos were released for "Townie", the first directed by Allyssa Yohana and premiered on Rookie on November 9, 2014, and the second directed by Faye Orlove and premiered on The Fader on March 9, 2015. She released two more singles, "I Don't Smoke" on September 29 and "I Will" on October 21. The album was reissued with four new bonus tracks on April 7, 2015 through Don Giovanni Records.
Commercially available examples in 2009 : Electra Townie and Amsterdam series; Day 6 Comfort Bicycles, the Giant Suede, the Trek Pure, the K2 Big Easy, the Sun Bicycles Ruskin and Rover, and the Rans Fusion. The following bicycles were commercially available in the United States in model year 2007: From Rans the Fusion, Cruz, Dynamik, Citi, 700X and Zenetik; from Electra the Townie series; from Lightfoot Cycles the Surefoot, from K2 the Big Easy series; from TREK the Pure series; from Cannondale the Daytripper series; from DelSol the LowBoy series; from Raleigh the Gruv series; from Giant the Suede series; from Sun the Drifter; and from Sims the Sea Breeze.
A major subplot in the novel is Sean's debt to Rupert, a violent townie drug dealer who often threatens to kill him. The character is the brother of the notorious Patrick Bateman and has also appeared in Ellis's other novels, American Psycho, The Informers and Glamorama.
Raffy was born a Townie, and has parents who live there, but attends the Jellicoe School. Her parents are teachers in the town of Jellicoe and she went to Primary School with Chaz Santangelo. She was his best friend there, and even his romantic interest. Both their families are good friends.
It was the first fair to jury an outdoor show in 1965 and in 2000 was a partner organization involved in the creation of the online jurying system Zapplication, now in use by hundreds of fairs across the country. The fair has initiated events like the Townie Street Party, a free kick off event taking place the Monday before the start of the fairs and gives the community a chance to celebrate the art fairs before the crowds come to town. The Dart for Art is a timed one-mile race featuring competitive elite runners followed by a community race and held in conjunction with the Townie Street Party. Other programs like the Youth Art Fair give young artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work.
In 2006, The Shirts recorded and released their first album in over 25 years at the studio Thorne had opened. It was titled, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn. As of 2014, both Racippo and Lamonica have spin off projects. 'Bob of the Shirts', with Zeeek on drums, released their first album, Townie, on Rottentotoof Records.
Source: Dubus, Andre III. Townie: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, page 146. Dubus carried personal firearms to protect himself and those around him, until the night in the late 1980s, when he almost shot a man who was in a drunken argument with his son, Andre, outside a bar in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Dubus, Andre III, Townie: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, pages 237-248. Dubus was seriously injured in a car accident on the night of July 23, 1986. He was driving from Boston to his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and he stopped to assist two disabled motorists—brother and sister Luis and Luz Santiago.
It was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, a Golden Globe and 39 other prizes. It won 13 nominations. Townie was No. 4 on the New York Times best-seller list and included in the Editors Choice section.
Ben Cotton (born July 26, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor. His most notable roles are on the TV series Stargate Atlantis playing scientist Dr. Kavanagh, his portrayal of "Leon Bell" in the game Dead Rising 2, Shane Pierce, the local townie, on CBS's Harper's Island and Lt. Coker Fasjovik in Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome.
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Hartford Public High School. Originally, he chose to go to Trinity College, but transferred because he felt like a "townie". Rome played piano in local dance bands such as Eddie Wittstein's and was already writing music while studying architecture and law at Yale University. While at Yale, he also pledged to Tau Epsilon Phi.
Furthermore, life in > general seemed so restricted. When I started writing music, I was not > satisfied with the two choices that were given to me as an 18-year-old. The > first choice was go to college in order to work your life away at an office. > The other choice was to be a townie and work at a machine shop or restaurant > in my hometown.
The stones were promptly righted and "planted" again and the culprit punished. Ongoing unsympathetic use by both local youth and townie pagans, such as the creation of numerous fire pits and the leaving of litter and broken glass after the festivals, does nothing for the atmosphere of this site.”White Dragon Pagan Magazine dated 30 October 2004 In the beginning there may have been some thirty stone pillars.
With Zoe and Russell's help, Jimmy attacks the Townies' hangout, where he defeats their leader, Edgar Munsen (Jan Milewicz). Upon revealing Gary's deception, Jimmy earns Edgar's respect, who offers him Townie support. Soon after, Gary and his followers take Crabblesnitch hostage, sparking a full-blown war between the cliques. The Townies and Russell help Jimmy neutralize the clique leaders, allowing him to chase Gary to main building's roof.
Jason Marsden (Jason Marsden), Eric's best friend from the age of three. He is often more calm than Eric, and can either be his voice of reason or the one who gets him into trouble. He is quite fond of girls, as is Eric. He was on the show from 1993–1995; he left the show after graduating and going to college, leaving Eric at home to be a "townie", and was never referenced again.
Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) is a student with aspirations to become a lawyer. A "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. His best friends at college are his love interest Chloe (Leslie Bibb), and Will (Hill Harper). Will is the coxswain of the Bulldog 8's rowing team and Luke is the captain.
Stricken with grief, Luke begins to suspect Will was in fact murdered by Caleb. Caleb also believes that he is guilty, suspecting Will died as a direct consequence of Caleb hitting him. Luke enlists his 'townie' friends from childhood to help solve the mystery. His friends are first unwilling to work with him, as he missed one of their birthday parties, so as an apology and a bribe he gives them a 1963 Ford Thunderbird.
The culmination of their hard work is tested in their last game of the season as they play the Dillon Panthers led by J.D. McCoy. In an amazing show of perseverance, the East Dillon Lions defeat the Dillon Panthers, ruining the Panthers' playoff chances. In season four, Matt Saracen struggles with staying in Dillon and living as a townie. He turned down an art school in Chicago and is instead studying art at the local technical college.
Ben Dayan was born in Kiryat Shmona on July 12, 1981 to a family of Moroccan extraction. Her parents divorced when she was 12 years old, and she moved in with her grandmother when she was 15. After being expelled from Danzinger High School in Kiryat Shmona, she began attending the nearby kibbutz high school in Kfar Bloom. The experience of being a Mizrahi "townie" in this more privileged Ashkenazi setting was of seminal importance to her later career and activism.
They meet up with some townie girls (one of whom is played by Elizabeth Daily) and eventually end up playing in a cemetery operated by one of the girls' undertaker father, where they come upon a fallen Vietnam War soldier's tombstone. They sleep at the former movie set of Giant. The next morning, with the car repaired with a front end from a different make and model, the Groovers continue. Phil wants to go back, prompting Kenneth to shout angrily at him.
His father's family first emigrated to Ann Arbor and settled on Spring street in the early 1890s. They are of German ancestry. While in Ann Arbor, Zemke's great grandfather owned and operated The Orient, a well-known "townie" pool hall and barber shop on the corner of North Main and Ann streets. The Orient In 1935, his grandfather Frederick "Fritz" Zemke left the University of Michigan to start a business out of his parents' Spring Street garage, operating vending machines and jukeboxes in local establishments.
Later on, this is also reaffirmed in "The Townie". In season 4, Damien tries to help Blair and Dan find Juliet when he finds out that he sold Juliet a large amount of drugs such as cocaine, pills and ether which was used to drug Serena. At one time, he started to sell sleeping pills to Eric. To get revenge on Ben, when the latter has threatened him to stay away from Serena and her family, he befriends Eric and comes up with a scheme to send Ben back to jail, unsuccessfully.
This was his first role as an adult. In 1972, Hammond appeared as Peter Linder in Skyjacked. In 1973, he made a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch, in season 4, episode #090, "The Subject Was Noses", as the high school hunk, Doug Simpson, who loses interest in Marcia after her tragic football accident. That year, he also appeared The Waltons episode, "The Townie", as Theodore Claypool, Jr. After making the transition from juvenile to young leading man, he spent several seasons in daytime soaps such as General Hospital.
Homer, taking pity on Marge, decides to take up work at his father's popular laser tag warehouse in order to pay for it, where he is abused by the children. At Springfield University, Marge is impressed with her surroundings and with her radical feminist revisionist history professor Stefane August, despite Homer's disapproval. The episode's second promotional image, featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic Marge quickly admires August, and both form a mutual attraction. August begins manipulating Marge by telling her Homer is a simple "townie" who would not appreciate her intellect.
A mix of yuppie and upper-middle-class gentrification has influenced much of the area, as it has in many of Boston's neighborhoods, but Charlestown still maintains a strong Irish-American population and "Townie" identity. In the 21st century, Charlestown's diversity has expanded dramatically, along with growing rates of the very poor and very wealthy. Today Charlestown is a largely residential neighborhood, with much housing near the waterfront, overlooking the Boston skyline. Charlestown is home to many historic sites, hospitals and organizations, with access from the Orange Line Sullivan Square or Community College stops or the I-93 expressway.
In February 2001, Lane, who by now was seven months pregnant with her fourth child, was interviewed by police. During the police interview, Lane claimed that she had given Tegan to the baby's father, a man called Andrew Norris (or Morris), with whom she claimed to have had a brief affair. According to Lane, the affair took place at a unit block in Balmain on Friday nights after a drinking session at the Town Hall pub ("The Townie"). Lane alleges in her police interviews Norris's long-term partner, Melanie, also lived there as she often saw female apparel strewn around the unit.
Returning the favor, Sandler appeared in a cameo to spout the same line in Schneider's The Animal, wherein, as a reference, Adam Sandler as a Townie utters: "Yeah! You can do it!" Schneider narrated Sandler's 2002 animated movie Eight Crazy Nights, and voiced the part of a Chinese waiter. Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
Lady bike, beach cruiser by Electra Bicycle Company In 2003, the company introduced its Townie model, using a crank forward geometry, marketed as Flat Foot Technology, where a seated rider's feet can rest flat on the ground -- combining aspects of cruiser geometry with recumbent geometry, moving the pedals forward and the seat back. Once the rider starts pedaling, they will experience proper leg extension as a result of the relaxed seat angle and the forward placement of the pedals. The crank forward design was noted mitigating a new cyclists' fear of falling off the bike."It's True: You don't forget, even after 25 years".
Men from Maine was a one- to two-minute comedy segment, opening with soap opera organ music and Loren stating something varying along the lines of, "Welcome to another thrilling episode of the exciting adventures of Men from Maine. As today's action packed drama begins...". Episodes typically revolve around the two main characters Lem (played by Tom) and Ephus (played by Wally), and other residents of Bangor, Maine, such as Ephus' wife Effie and son Ephus Junior, Doc Cider (after Dock Sider shoes) and Pastor Fazool (after pasta e fagioli). The same characters have been used in songs about Maine on the segment "Tom's Townie Tunes" (see below).
North Road handlebars One of the oldest type of handlebars, and perhaps the most ubiquitous for town bikes, this type of bar was named after the North Road Cycling Club in London and then used on three- speed and single speed Raleighs, Schwinns, and other three-speed bikes well into the 1980s, as well as various European utility bikes and roadsters. They are also known as "townie", or "tourist" bars. North Road bars are more or less swept back toward the rider; in extreme cases each grip ends nearly parallel to the other and the bike's frame. They have recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity on some hybrid bicycles, city bikes, and comfort models.
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, making him the first African American male to do so. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate School. While Zack meets his first true girlfriend during his training, a young "townie" named Paula (Winger), he also comes into conflict with the hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley (Gossett Jr.) training his class. The film was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford.
Townsend Whelen (March 6, 1877 – December 23, 1961), called "Townie" by his friends, was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman. Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career. He was a contributing editor to Sports Afield, American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Guns & Ammo, and other magazines, and author of Suggestions to Military Riflemen, The American Rifle, Telescopic Rifle Sights, The Hunting Rifle, Small Arms and Ballistics, Hunting Big Game (of which he was the editor), Amateur Gunsmithing, and Why Not Load Your Own. An autobiography, Mr. Rifleman, was begun by Whelen, but finished by his family and published after his death.
Colonel Townsend "Townie" Whelen (1877–1961) was an American soldier, hunter, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman. Retiring from a career in the Army in 1936, Whelen became a leading outdoor writer, contributing to various sporting publications including American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Guns & Ammo, Outdoor Life and Sports Afield, as well as writing a number of books on hunting and firearms. Whelen hunted all his life, taking his first deer in 1892 and his last 66 years later, over his life he shot numerous big game animals including brown bear, black bear, moose, wapiti, caribou, white tailed deer, mule deer, black tailed deer, bighorn sheep and mountain goat all over Canada, throughout the Rocky Mountains and in the Adirondacks. Whelen developed a number of rifle cartridges based on the .
They were merely trying to prevent an underage sale." Reporters obtained an email written by Emily Crawford, an employee for the school's communications department, telling her bosses that she found the protests "very disturbing," saying, "I have talked to 15 townie friends who are [persons of color] and they're disgusted and embarrassed by the protest. In their view, the kid was breaking the law, period... To them this is not a race issue at all." During the trial, witness Eddie Holoway, a black man who worked his way through technical college while working at Gibson’s Bakery, said that the racist allegations against his former employer were untrue. "In my life, I have been a marginalized person, so I know what it feels like to be called something that you know you’re not.
Having united all the cliques under his rule and restored peace to Bullworth, Jimmy boasts in his newfound glory and respect. Meanwhile, Gary convinces the cliques to pressure Jimmy into vandalizing Bullworth's town hall, and recruits the "Townies", a group of former Bullworth students who seek revenge against the school, to play a series of dangerous pranks on the cliques, so that they would turn on Jimmy, believing his lack of leadership skill led to this. Upon informing Crabblesnitch of Jimmy vandalazing the town hall, he is appointed head boy, while Jimmy is expelled. Seeking revenge, Jimmy meets Townie member Zoe Taylor (Molly Fox) and helps her get revenge on predatory Bullworth gym teacher Mr. Burton (Michael Boyle), who got her expelled when she accused him of sexually harassing her.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 returns to Maryland's Black Hills region in the wake of The Blair Witch Project and the prodigious media coverage devoted to its conflation of documentary style and supernatural legend, fans and curiosity-seekers have descended upon the movie's real-life setting of Burkittsville, Maryland. Jeff Patterson (Jeffrey Donovan), a black-sheep "townie" only recently released from a mental institution, has turned his obsession with the Blair Witch into a business and has lured four young people to Burkittsville for a tour of the Witch's purported Black Hills' haunts. Jeff's clients are also fixated on the film, for reasons they themselves may not fully comprehend. Erica Geerson (Erica Leerhsen) is a practicing Wiccan who has immersed herself in Blair Witch mythology, even though she decries the film's portrayal of her fellow witches.
Andre Dubus was married three times and fathered six children. His son Andre Dubus III is also an author; his most noted book is the novel House of Sand and Fog (1999), which was both a finalist for the National Book Award and the basis for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same title. In 2011, Andre Dubus III published a memoir of his life, Townie, which tells of growing up in Haverhill and deals extensively with his relationship with his father and the impoverished conditions faced by his mother and siblings after Dubus left the family for a student. Dubus was the subject of an essay by Kacey Kowars entitled "A Celebration of Words," and was also paid tribute to in Andre Dubus: Memoirs, a book edited by Kowars and featuring authors such as James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus II, and Andre Dubus III.
Set in the fictional Camden College in New Hampshire, the film opens at the "End of the World" party, where students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film student upstairs to have sex and passes out; she wakes to find herself being raped by a townie while the film student records it, and reflects on how she had planned to lose her virginity to Victor, her now ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile, Paul, who is bisexual, tries to have sex with a jock, only to be bashed when it turns out the jock is deeply closeted. A bruised and beaten Sean is shown drinking a whole bottle of Jack Daniel's, tearing up a series of purple letters, before approaching and having sex with a blonde girl at the party.
After Saving Grace, two television film prequels to the film were made by BSkyB: Doc Martin and Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie, in which viewers learn that Bamford, a successful obstetrician (played by Martin Clunes in each), finds that his wife has been carrying on extramarital affairs behind his back with his three best friends. After confronting her with the news, he decides to leave London and heads for Cornwall, which he remembers fondly from his youth. Shortly after he arrives, he gets involved in the mystery of the "Jellymaker" and, following the departure of the village's resident GP, decides to stay in Port Isaac and fill the gap himself. Clunes' company tried selling a series on the same theme to ITV who liked it, but felt the character of Martin Bamford needed a stronger defining characteristic than just being a "townie" who is a little out of his depth in the country.
Around the 1860s an influx of Irish immigrants arrived in Charlestown. The area long remained an Irish and Catholic stronghold similar to South Boston, Somerville, and Dorchester, to the extent that the informal demonym "Townie" continues to imply the working-class Irish, as opposed to newer immigrants. During the Civil War, over 26,000 men joined the Union Army and Navy at the Navy Yard, which was also responsible for constructing some of the most famous vessels of the conflict: the Merrimack, the Hartford, and the Monadnock. Following the war, the city commissioned Martin Milmore to construct its civil war memorial, dedicated in 1872 and still standing in the community's Training Field. The city developed a water supply from the Mystic Lakes and, on October 7, 1873, a vote was held to determine whether Charlestown should leave Middlesex County and join Boston as part of Suffolk County. Out of its 32,040 residents, 2240 voted in support of the merger and 1947 opposed. Boston residents also approved the question, 5,960–1,868."The Result in Figures", The Boston Globe, p. 5, October 8, 1873.