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Originally posted by Munchkin03
DeltAlum, is Nelsonville near Athens? Thanks for the information!
Maybe our next thread should be "Who's NOT in a Sorority? Clearing up rumours and urban legends." 
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Now there's a great idea. We would probably mess that up, too. Maybe one that says, "Who cares?"
Lioness exagerates just a little. Nelsonville is about 12 miles North of Athens on US Route 33 which is the road to Columbus -- so it's really more like 10 minutes away. (Actually, I'm staying at a new hotel in Nelsonville for OU Homecoming this Fall because it costs about 1/3 as much as the Athens hotels inflated rates for that weekend.) It does have several traffic lights, but is a pretty small, fairly poor town. The big event there was the annual, "Nelsonville Parade of the Hills" at which I had to do a remote broadcast for an Athens station one year before Nelsonville got its own radio station. Starting to get the picture?
I wonder if Sarah was ever Miss Parade of the Hills? I digress.
There are a number of O.U. faculty and/or staff members who live there -- or in small towns or enclaves (good word, huh?) in between.
Basically, the entire Southeast Ohio (Apalacian) region centers socially and economically around Athens and the University, so even if neither of her parents worked for O.U. (I'm still pretty sure I read that at least one of them did), it would explain her mother's interest in the Theatre there. My wife's degree is in Theatre from Ohio, and worked OVST a couple of years, but wasn't in Dark of the Moon, although she may have worked the show. The department has turned out several moderate to fairly large TV and movie celebrities, but I don't know if any were Greek so I'm not starting any more urban (if you can call Athens that) legends.