townie

The defining characteristic of a townie is coming from somewhere, and that holds true in his case.

And Jed seems to regress into a charmless adolescent, disappearing for long stretches to drink with old townie friends and treating his wife increasingly like an errant receptacle for his seed.

I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke.

She believed it was all made easier by being in Canton where Thurman had moved the family in 1978 from the New York suburbs, and where he was more townie than icon.

“This is such a townie music scene where we want to support each other,” Bellerose said.