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Post by crzhrs on Mar 1, 2007 8:51:01 GMT -6
OK . . . NH, the OLD NH is hard to come by anymore. Rapid and uncontrolled development is ruining the very reason that made NH what it once was.
We are fortunate to be the last house (there's only one other house) on a dead-end road with State Forest on three sides of us.
Our small town have officials who have no vision or sense of planning and who think big-box retailers and other chain stores will be the savior and make the town the "Hub" of the area. The only thing they are doing is turning it into "Any Town--Any Where, USA and destroying the small town character. And my town is not alone in that type of mentality.
This past winter has been "odd" The first half was snowless with above average temps. Since mid-January it has been more winter-like, but with only one major snow storm in our area (12") However, as I type this we are expecting a snow/sleet/freezing rain storm overnight and into Friday.
No matter how long you live in a snow belt you never get use to the snow and cold.
Costa Rica anyone!
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Post by markland on Mar 1, 2007 9:26:56 GMT -6
D O-- Boy, do we see eye-to-eye! And I certainly know what you mean about people-- somehow, especially New Yorkers-- moving in to some beautiful, unspoiled area, and then just ruining it. My wife's family owns a house on the Outer Banks and they have been vacationing there for 30 years or so. When they first began going there, they used to have to get out of the car, raise a road-gate to continue up the road to their house. Now the place is utterly over-run. Multi-million $ homes, rentals for $8,000-$9,000 a week, mobs, 2-hour car rides to go 20 miles, shopping centers, rip-off gag-and-heave restaurants, the whole thing. It used to be a wild horse sanctuary until people started complaining about horses on the beach. Mysteriously, the horses disappeared. No swimming pools were allowed until people started complaining that they didn't like the sand on the beaches getting into their shorts. Suddenly, swimming pools began appearing. You were prohibited from disturbing the dunes. All of a sudden, dunes started disappearing: "O-o-o-o-h, we can't see the beach!" No northern-style grass lawns were allowed; they would interfere w/ the natural environment. My, my! Now look at all the lawns. It's a damn shame. And the Cubs, D O? I never cared much for Georgia anyway. Spent too much time at Benning. Best wishes, Fred. Fred, that sounds like Corolla. At one time, you had to drive on the beach from the Corolla Hunt Club up to Penny's Hill (I used to go up there with some good old boys hunting feral hogs-fortunately we never saw one when I was with them!) When I first started visiting the Outer Banks (I grew up an hour from them) we had to take three ferries to cross the Alligator river and the Roanoke and Croatan sounds. In 1980 when I began with the telephone company there, while summer was crowded, during the winter you could drive the length of the northern banks-Nags Head to Corolla-and see only two or three other cars. Sadly, that changed about 1983 when the Epstein tract was sold in Nags Head. Progress? Be good, Billy
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Post by fred on Mar 1, 2007 9:40:19 GMT -6
You hit the nail right on the head, Billy. Now, my wife and I go there only in the winter & we haven't been there for four years. We actually moved to Kill Devil Hills in '96, but it wasn't for us. Too many pointed hats. Less than 1 year & it was back to NY. It's a shame; you talk about beauty... wow!
And now you're in Kansas. Dust storms. What is it w/ you and sand?
Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by d o harris on Mar 1, 2007 14:18:55 GMT -6
And the Cubs, Fred? I have nothing much to say that can't be expressed in ten or twelve thousand words, but do you really want to turn this thread into a discussion of baseball? We did that last year, you kinow, and Diane was tolerant. This time we may be subject to her approbation, and while there are people, present and past, from whom I'd prefer approbation to approval, Diane doesn't fit that category. I think I'll reserve my comments for the Into thread.
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Post by fred on Mar 1, 2007 17:13:36 GMT -6
Meet you in Intro.
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Post by Melani on Mar 7, 2007 13:34:03 GMT -6
Not to drag the thread back on topic or anything, but--what a great site! Thanks for posting the link.
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Post by Montana Bab on Mar 7, 2007 23:25:07 GMT -6
Just noticed that this site adds new testimonies to its list from time to time. The newest one is the 1924 account of William Slaper. Most notably his remarks about Thompson's account are interesting: he says of Mr. Thompson "...his story, as it stands, will never pass as long as there are any of the old boys of the 7th Cavalry left to dispute it." www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/wm_slaper_little_big_horn.html
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Post by crzhrs on Mar 8, 2007 9:41:49 GMT -6
Bab:
Good one. Some of those accounts I have not read as of yet. Thompson's story has much that is hard to believe while other parts are believable, leaving one to scratch one's head.
We have a fellow trooper repudiating Thompson's account.
Again . . . who do we believe?
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Post by elisabeth on Mar 8, 2007 10:56:01 GMT -6
I'm not quite sure what's going on with Slaper's argument that he'd have been picked up by the rearguard. He says Watson was -- and Watson of course survived -- so he can't mean the rearguard of Custer's battalion, he must be thinking of the pack-train. In which case maybe he's misread what Thompson's saying about where his horse gave out, and some of his condemnation is unfounded.
On the other hand, if Watson's horse did give out far enough back on the trail for him to be scooped up by the pack-train, then all Thompson's adventures by the river with Watson are fiction.
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Post by Montana Bab on Mar 8, 2007 12:36:52 GMT -6
Thank you, Elizabeth, those are good points. But as Crzhrs says above.....who do we believe? Bab
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Post by harpskiddie on Mar 8, 2007 12:44:50 GMT -6
Brininstool, who published Slaper's story, was a writer with an agenda, so I would be inclined to take that into account when reading anything "told" to him. That is not to say that it should be summarily dismissed, just that the proverbial "grain of salt" should be employed. That same caution must be attached to almost everything, of course, but maybe a little salt should be added for decidedly pro or anti Custer writers. Or pro or anti ANYBODY writers who start with that bias.
Gordie
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Post by Montana Bab on Mar 8, 2007 15:53:01 GMT -6
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Post by Montana Bab on Mar 8, 2007 16:00:18 GMT -6
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