In our suburban Hartford area bedroom community, where farms have yielded
to housing over the past 25 years, we have the typical array of streets
named for trees and former farms for most of the older streets, and
somebody's idea of a good marketable name for newer development-created
streets, like Stagecoach Lane. The street is on top of a steep ridge and is
the last place a stagecoach would have run, but who knows what helps sell a
street full of 600,000 dollar houses.

Our own street name is the insipid LOVELY Street, a pleasant 2-lane state
highway running 5 miles from Canton to Unionville. I am greatly amused by
the surprising number of pieces of junk mail that arrive misaddressed to
LONELY Street. Someone in the junk mail industry is either a die hard Elvis
fan or has endured a few too many nights of personal anguish, but having
driven up and down this road countless times. I am quite certain that there
are no hotels of any kind, Heartbreak or otherwise, on either end.

Mike E.