This is 99% Invisible.

I'm Chris Barube, sitting in this week for Roman Mars.

In Woon Socket, Rhode Island, there's one surefire way to get yourself clocked as an out-of-towner.

Is it Woonsocket?

Woon-Socket?

Yep.

No, double-O.

No woo.

No, that's no, no woo. Yep. No, double O. No woo. No woo.

This past spring, producer Jason DeLeon drove to one socket, which is just a few miles

up the road from where he lives.

And in Woonsocket, I met up with Jean Mishon.

Gene is Native American and French Canadian.

So technically, her name is Jean. God's gift to man. That's what I mean. Really? My mother had a sense of humor.

Pronunciations aside, everyone calls her Jean. And Jean is third generation one socket.

She grew up there in the 1970s,

and back then she said the city had some stuff going for it. There were places to hang out, like the local movie theater, or the skating rink, or the arcade. And because she loved to cook,

Jean remembers always jumping at the chance to go with her mom to the grocery store.

And that was the biggest thing ever.

Woo!

We're going shopping with mom.

Woo-hoo.

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