A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-11-03...Welcome to "Les Verts Mont"

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

It's Saturday! Time for another........

WEEK IN REVIEW

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks, Meek. Apparently I was one of the last to know about these Google things. Guess I need to get out more and discover what is happening on other threads. LOL!

Have a great weekend. :-)

[.30Carbine]

(((HUGS!)))
and many thanks, Mama_Bear.

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, thank YOU for spotlighting it -- and sorry I was in bed with cold for too much of the day!

You should come visit, in mid-October, when it's on fire. It's an easy thing to get to cheaply -- just fly into Albany, NY (lots of major airlines do) and drive an hour east to hit the bottom of the state.

[FreeTheHostages]

but doesn't say it all

Lovely post, and it makes perfect sense that a Vermonter would feel it in his bones but wouldn't, at the end of the day, "say it all." ;)

[FreeTheHostages]

"My Dad still owns and rides the John Deere tractor he bought in 1972! Nothing runs like a Deere!"

You see 'em in the all the *true* Vermont parades, which include antique tractors. 1972 wouldn't even count as antique! Deere's last.

[Mama_Bear]

.... just fly into Albany, NY (lots of major airlines do) and drive an hour east to hit the bottom of the state.

Might just do that. I'd like to get back to Massachusetts too and see where I was born and where my family comes from. My son was stationed in Ballston Spa for awhile (near Albany, I think) when he was going to Navy Nuclear Power school. We had hoped to get back there to visit him while he was there, but, before we could, he was transfered to Bremerton WA.

There is so much to see and do in New England, we are going to need at least a month. Guess we will have to wait until we retire.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, you have a lovely weekend too !

I should have linked that Google thread here when I found it. Whoops!

[longshadow]

I give up. I'm a California bear, what do I know? LOL.

I'm going to wait to see if "FreeTheHostages" can come up with the answer....

Sorry to keep you in suspense. All will be revealed, eventually.

[longshadow]

Vermonters are legendary for their "dry, take-nothing-for-granted humor." Here's a sample (allegedly true):

Calvin Coolidge was riding in a car with a friend in Vermont. The friend looks out the side window and sees a flock of sheep in a meadow.

"Say, Cal; the sheep sure are shorn kinda close this year...." said the friend.

After a long silence, during which Coolidge stared at the sheep, he finally replied: "They are on this side...."

[FreeTheHostages]

Uncle. Don't know where the doctor practiced. (LOL -- I'm MUCH better on my Bennington history than my general Vermont history!)

[longshadow]

Uncle. Don't know where the doctor practiced. (LOL -- I'm MUCH better on my Bennington history than my general Vermont history!)

Ah, but he practiced within 10 miles of Bennington! And I gave you the hint he was on staff at the Putnam Hospital, so he had to be from somewhere near Bennington....

The doctor in the famous Rockwell painting is George Russell, from Arlington.

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, that's easy! 10 miles within the radius of Bennington, he would be from:

Shaftsbury, Woodford, or Pownal (gee, I'm not even sure if I spelled that last one right -- it occurs to me I've only said, never written, that town name). I don't think Arlington's within 10 miles. I guess I'd add "Old Bennington" to the list if one wants to call it a separate town.

[FreeTheHostages]

OH! Or it could be North Bennington. We real Vermonters try to forget that town even exists, inasmuch as Bennington College has overtook it. But it is the site of the beautiful McCullough Mansion.

[longshadow]

I don't think Arlington's within 10 miles.

Okay.... so it's 12 miles. Ten should be close enough for government work, right?

[FreeTheHostages]

on the new route 7, it's probably 10!

yes, close enough for government work

[longshadow]

yes, close enough for government work

Arlington was also the stomping ground for Remember Baker, who used to chase away the Yorker sherriffs who were trying to evict settlers off of their land so people with New York titles could settle on it during pre-revolutionary times. And if recollection serves, Ira Allen, brother of Ethan, lived in Sunderland (the next town north of Arlington, for all you flat-landers out there reading this thread.)