Try making friends with some retired old geezer who knows the area and just bring him along with you.
funny you'd say that... last night I went to our city council meeting, and one of the speakers was some nutball talking about conspiracies, the CIA, and space aliens. Then he went off on a diatribe about how we should stop all of our foolish spending on tools (the issue last night was whether or not to allow a Lowes in our town) and get to know the old folks in town and borrow their tools instead.