Talk:Willis Adcock

"Emigrated to the United States"
Putting it this way is misleading; sounds much too intentional, formal and decisive. Champlain, NY is just fifteen miles from his parents' farm in Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville, and is pretty much part of the same community, despite the border. It's not as if he came in via Ellis Island leaving everything behind. In the referenced interview he says:

"I went to grade school in a small Canadian border town called Clarenceville. They didn’t have a high school, so in 1936 when I was fourteen years old I went across the border to live with my uncle and went to high school in Champlain, New York. I used bicycle to my home in Canada, so it was no problem at all."

It sounds to me as though he went to board at the nearest place he could go to high school (his uncle's), which was only incidentally on the other side of an international border. The significance of that move could only have been realized later.Don Argus jr (talk) 22:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)