Posted on 09/05/2006 1:10:38 PM PDT by metesky
Just ick.
Amen. The case where the DHS worker killed a child made me want to puke.
Northern New England has horrible soil and climate. It once had a thriving agricultural economy, but most of the ambitious farmers went to better land in the West when it became available. Then there were industrial mills, but many of those died. What was left in some towns was the unmotivated dregs. Of course, there were also many hardworking people who just liked the country and lifestyle, and the vacation industry helped them survive. I would advise avoiding old mill towns where there is little employment. Crime and substance abuse seem to be concentrated there.
The late Stan Rogers wrote a song about that:
Stan Rogers -- Northwest Passage -- "CANOL Road"
Well you could see it in his eyes as they strained against the night,
And the bone-white-knuckled grip upon the road,
Sixty-five miles into town, and a winter's thirst to drown,
A winter still with two months left to go.
His eyes are too far open, his grin too hard and sore,
His shoulders too far high to bring relief,
But the Kopper King is hot, even if the band is not,
And it sure beats shooting whiskey-jacks and trees.
Then he laughs and says "It didn't get me this time, not tonight,
I wasn't screaming when I hit the door."
But his hands on the tabletop, will their shaking never stop,
Those hands sweep the bottles to the floor.
Now he's a bear in a blood-red mackinaw with hungry dogs at bay,
And springtime thunder in his sudden roar,
With one wrong word he burns, and the table's overturned,
When he's finished there's a dead man on the floor.
Well they watched for him in Carmacks, Haines, and Carcross,
With Teslin blocked there's nowhere else to go,
But he hit the four-wheel-drive in Johnson's Crossing,
Now he's thirty-eight miles up the CANOL road.
He's thirty-eight miles up the CANOL road,
In the Salmon Range at forty-eight below...
Well it's God's own neon green above the mountains here tonight,
Throwing brittle coloured shadows on the snow,
It's four more hours til dawn, and the gas is almost gone,
And that bitter Yukon wind begins to blow.
Now you can see it in his eyes as they glitter in the light
And the bone-white rime of frost around his brow,
Too late the dawn has come, that Yukon winter has won,
And he's got his cure for cabin fever now.
Well they watched for him in Carmacks, Haines, and Carcross,
With Teslin blocked there's nowhere else to go,
But they hit the four-wheel-drive in Johnson's Crossing,
Found him thirty-eight miles up the CANOL road.
They found him thirty-eight miles up the CANOL road,
In the Salmon Range at forty-eight below,
They found him thirty-eight miles up the CANOL road...
All the locations referenced are real places, including the Kopper King bar in Whitehorse. The CANOL Road goes north from Johnson's Crossing, and is not maintained during the winter months. 38 miles is roughly to the middle of Quiet Lake.
Inside info?
Soil and climate aren't all that bad, just rocky. Hard to compete with the midwest once the railroads were finished.
Once you're north of Rt. 2 it's all the same, Bill.
I you are interested I will tell you the story of the Arkansas relative and the cow, never read any thing from "Yankee" for the truth.
Any word on a motive for such carnage?
This country cries out for an effective death penalty...even if he is insane. Why should citizens pay to keep him alive for the rest of his life??
It started to really suck in '70 when a lot of the old timers started to sell out due to State Mandates, which pissed me off, because these people had nothing but their land.
There was a dark day in St Jay when you couldn't eat at the restaurant on Railroad Ave, with a half opened sixer in the front seat and a .357 in you pocket, with little exaggeration.
mark for later reading
He was in the process of being evicted.
http://www.sunjournal.com/storyupdate.php#109
I bet he is a democrat and is a member of the DU.
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