> Sorry Pam, but folks like you are the reason we small town folk hate to
see
> the city folk come and settle in our towns.

Not sure I agree with you, Ruth.  I think we naive newcomers are actually
needed and appreciated in a special way.   Like Pam, when I moved to a small
town to take up managing the Provincial historic site, the locals quickly
made me the President of the Chamber of Commerce too.   They need people
like us with none of the old baggage of fence wars and personal arguments
from the past.   People like Pam and me are new meat for the table, ready to
devour.    In my case, the locals were greatly relieved to have someone
willing to fill the executive role, because everyone else was burned out or
still smouldering from some recent or past disagreement.   I could talk with
anyone without prejudice, and they each looked to me as a potential new
ally for their own interests.   Any town is like a garden.   It needs
pruning and replanting from time to time.  The newcomer allows a fresh
moment in the life of the town.   Maybe we are simply like fresh manure, but
even that has a purpose, if only to provide the opportunity to come together
with old associates and complain
about the smell.

cp in bc
been there - done that

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:10 AM
Subject: [BP] Phelps


> Sorry Pam, but folks like you are the reason we small town folk hate to
see
> the city folk come and settle in our towns.  We LIKE  our way of life.
You
> come to a small town, supposedly, because you like the lifestyle there,
but
> as soon as you get there you want to change things to the way they are at
> the place you came from--that you didn't like and are wanting to get away
> from.  WHY?????  Ruth
>
> Ralph -
>
> The 21st century isn't all bad - just most of it.  It's more the fact that
> Phelps is incredibly conservative and petty - especially politically.
> Since I'm not running for any office any time soon (although, I am the
> president this year for the chamber of commerce), I prefer to be known as
> one of those "excentric urbanites" who helps to remove some blinders
people
> have around here.  Of course, I do have friends in "high" places, so that
> helps.
>
> - Pam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
> To:
>
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS@MAELST
ROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 08:35
> Subject: Re: [BP] Hey, Ralph
>
>
>
> - Pam, helping to ram the 21st century down the throat of Phelps (aka -
> sometimes, you gotta shake things up to make them better)
>
> Pam,
>
> This may come as a surprise to you, but speaking for myself and very
> possibly some of our fellow Pinheads, the 21st century is not our idea of
a
> good time.  Or a good part of the 20th, for that matter.
>
> Yours uneasily,
> Ralph
>
> --
> Ruth Barton
> [log in to unmask]
> Dummerston, VT
>
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