dutchess

IBM has a LOT of facilities in Dutchess County -- including their own HQ in Armonk.

Say you're a Dutchess if you like; your claim is exactly as valid as anyone else's; which is to say, nonsense.

I live in Dutchess County, NY, which is pretty much the epicenter of the North American Lyme Disease epidemic.

There is Nuclear lake on the Appalachian trail in Dutchess county, NY.

Hint: I live in Dutchess County, NY and for years worked in Westchester Country, NY.

Were they closing down the facility in Dutchess County?

It's doubtful that'll ever happen in Dutchess County but I can dream.

And I don't know how many they cut outside of Dutchess County...

I lived two counties farther north, in Dutchess county.

You can save a ton of your living expense by taking advantage of the Metro-North commuter railroad which runs all the way up into the Hudson Valley, into Dutchess county where it's far cheaper to live.

With the significant exception of the malaria, this could well have been an interesting place to visit, much like the Great Swamp of Putnam and Dutchess counties, just across the Hudson from here, is now.

IBM's presence before that massive layoff was such that almost everyone in Dutchess County with a corporate job worked at IBM, it really felt like you either worked for IBM or you worked at the mall or a gas station.

For something completely different, Amelia Rauser, "The Butcher-Kissing Dutchess of Devonshire: Between Caricature and Allegory in 1784." Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 (Fall 2002): 23-47.

Those style guides also mention many more special cases, like "the students' questions" (but "the dutchess's hat", because students is plural and dutchess is singular) and even break that down to the case where the next word starts with s, like "the dutchess' style".

If your grandfather's land was near ours (Dutchess County), they may very well be the same species.

There's also four members appointed by the county executives of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Putnam but they all share one vote.

They thoroughly cleaned out rush hour traffic in NY counties Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess.