Talk:Winesburg, Ohio

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You should at least mention that Clyde, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio really exists. I was raised in Clyde, Ohio, and the Presbyterian Church mentioned in the book still exists. Also available are pictures of two houses Anderson lived in while he called Clyde his home. My Father, Clarence F Homan, brought Sherwood Anderson's name alive in the 1960's, by naming several of his developmantal properties "Winesburg Enterprises" in honor of the author. Jeffrey R. Homan

[edit] The town vs. the novel

The page for Winesburg, Ohio should probably go directly to the novel rather than the unincorporated town. The MLA ranks it as the 24th best novel of all time, so it's slightly more notable. Benplowman 07:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

But that's not the way things are usually done. If nothing else, places seem generally to be notable inherently (we have to prove that they exist, but that's really easy), while books aren't. The article for the "Big Apple" is New York City, but it really would be a bad idea to put the famous Sinatra song at New York, New York instead of at its current title, Theme from New York, New York. It's the general pattern to have places at the simple name and other things with disambiguated names. Nyttend 22:10, 21 October 2007 (UTC)