Ken,  You are absolutely correct, and the invitation still stands today,
Come and visit, ski, golf, hike, whatever.  But when you're done with it GO
BACK HOME!!!!!  We don't even mind if you want to come and build or buy a
house and become a permanent, contributing member of our community--but
don't move in because you like the rural way of life and then complain
because the roads aren't paved, there are no streetlights, the church bell
rings on Sunday morning and the neighbors cows or hogs or dogs come over
for a visit every now and again--that's just the way things are in Vermont,
or the way they're SUPPOSED to be.  Ruth





At 11:12 AM -0500 3/2/05, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>> I feel sorry for places like Vermont,  the influx of New Yorkers since
>> the late 60's has usurped a distinct culture  of the North woods and
>> replaced it with bagels and locks and the Village Voice.(well the
>> times anyway)
>
>
>Py,
>
>Somehwere abouts around here in the confusion I have a book that
>describes the marketing history that has been going on since the 19th
>century to develop Vermont, by Vermonters, as a place for residents of
>other states to vacation and tour. If it was ruined I don't suspect it
>happened first in the 60's, unless you mean the 1860's though I'm not
>aware the Village Voice being quite that old.
>
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