In a message dated 9/19/2003 11:40:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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A woman from Brooklyn came to Ithaca to visit her daughter and the
group, including me, went out to visit one of the local scenic gorges.
The woman, admiring what she saw, asked her daughter who had planted all
of the trees.
Ruth,

OK,  so there may be SOME drawbacks to New York.  And New Yorkers.

Ralph