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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOak Ridge Tennessee...
Sort of a synthetic town, but that little boy can play the mandolin...
Can't help myself tonight from lovin' me some bluegrass.
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Oak Ridge Tennessee... (Original Post)
NNadir
Oct 2021
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We lived next to to Argonne National Laboratory, it made for an interesting neighborhood ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
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marble falls
(57,260 posts)1. Atomic Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
NNadir
(33,561 posts)2. It's a great lab. My son interned there, and I dropped him off and did the tour.
There is, it seems, no town, just a series of strip malls. In a way, that's not surprising. The lab was put there to be remote.
marble falls
(57,260 posts)3. We lived next to to Argonne National Laboratory, it made for an interesting neighborhood ...
... with well educated and rounded people, a lot of them from other countries around the world.
NNadir
(33,561 posts)4. I'll bet. Living near Princeton is kind of like that.
The highlight for me was that I got to spend about two hours with Free.an Dyson in his office chatting about his life.
The rest has more or less fallen into the category of scientific celebrity sightings.
I do find the types of people one meets or overhears around here bright and incisive generally, although we do have our share of idiots as well.
marble falls
(57,260 posts)5. Some are idiots, but at least the conversation is interesting.
Disaffected
(4,569 posts)6. Thank you!