That's a truly fun and interesting story, and I loved the connection it makes between AoGG and BtVS. I also think Anne had a very advanced understanding of the importance of names.

I also found your discussion of how things have changed interesting; it's the reason I haven't gone back to my grandparents' home in Kentucky. Some of the old ancestral buildings have been torn down, and they've strip mined the mountain that towered right across the road, dominating everything in sight. I'd prefer to remember it as it was. On a related note, at least half the buildings up and down the street I live on have been replaced or completely remodeled in the last 20 years; if I'd been gone that long I wouldn't recognize the place.