Thank you!
My mom grew up along the river, where half a dozen brothers and sisters got married and built houses and raised all these cousins who'd go ice skating, ice fishing, canoing, or clamming on the banks of the Cedar. I never would have imagined anyone calling them "dirty river people," but in fact, one of them ended up with a clean, neat-freak German mother-in-law who thought the Irish (and river people) were "dirty." I keep a clean house (paper clutter aside), but not as clean as those German women, who'd wash curtains and rugs waaaay more often than I do. And sweep the front step, even scrub it soap and water... not for me! (I don't even do windows.) I'm unclean! eep!