Posted on 08/01/2015 4:42:23 AM PDT by taildragger
Over the last four decades, if you’ve seen a World War II aircraft actually in flight, chances are pretty good that the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts had something to do with it. Wednesday, the town Planning board voted 3-to-2 that the Foundation’s living history events, tours, exhibitions and veteran roundtable discussions are not educational, and thereby denied it a permit to expand. The Building Department also issued a cease and desist order against the Foundation on March 26, 2015 prohibiting take-offs and landings from the airstrip it has maintained and flown from for 37 years.
jumping in the lake is to good for this type..unless they cant swim
They ought to pack up and move to a Red state.
the crap that come from that state just boggles the mind
Frankly, listen to Jeff Kuhner 12 -3 WRKO on line or on your phone and I think the people of Mass are waking up. But “This is not the place” attitude might have this fine organization pick up stakes and head south. I bet their is some Southern Governor and or the Gov of Texas that would love to find them an old airfield with a ton of acreage and invite / entice them down. Foolish, foolish move by those in power in the township IMHO....
Massachusetts should be purged from he union
I’m a bit behind on this, but I recall that the local Minutemen who do yearly July 4th parade must ‘unload’ their black powder muskets before entering one town.
I grew up in Mass, lived in Sudbury for many years and had “some” association w/Collins Fdn.
Used to be proud to say that I lived in MA.
Many historical markers to drive by on the way to work, even small ones (such and such canon was taken this way, Boston Post Rd, Minuteman Statue etc).
Most people only think of Boston in the history, but many more was in ‘suburbs” which became the bedroom towns.
Natick was a big supplier of shoes and BASEBALLS (and Doug Flutie)
So much history is being lost
If it is the planning board, having had some exposure to these types in small town New England politics, they are generally run by highly liberal, highly politicized small town bureaucrats who love to exercise power.
Occasionally there is a relatively conservative member, but that is about it.
I used to know one very well from another town.
As a kid, I listened to Jerry Williams, then Howie Carr et.al.
The people didn’t wake up then even with the tax cap (forget the lady who initiated / followed through with it)
Good luck
Massachusetts should be purged from he union
No, just the pre Kennedy voters
They might well run the tanks near the lake, at least once a year they do an interactive exhibit (I went to it once, it is pretty well done) of some small unit tactics, demonstrated by uniformed (German and American) re-enactors, some in tracked vehicles like a halftrack, they use blank ammunition, fire machine guns, Thompsons, grease guns, MG42, etc. It is pretty well done.
If they had a running tank, I bet they would use it, but again, this a once a year thing.
They usually fly an AT6 (( think) that they sell rides in on Father’s Day from their grass airstrip, and I certainly don’t think they could fly a B-25 and definitely not a B-24 in or out of there. (I think they could do a B-25 in a pinch if it were an emergency to land, but not routinely...though I could be wrong about this.)
They have a large number of antique cars in spectacular eat-off-the-engine-block kind of shape, and I think at least one of a kind that was worth three million dollars (can’t remember what it was)
They have a big collection displayed of race cars of various types and technologies, and there are a few planes there too. I think they had a flyable Yak-6 (I think) there, an Avenger, etc, and I seem to recall a German plane in the process of being restored)
It is one of those places that looks like it has absolutely no security, but you know there is a LOT of electronic security hidden away.
It is a very cool facility, but so obscure and unpretentious that you wouldn’t know what it was. They have a small sign on a narrow road that is probably 2 ft by 3 ft that looks like it could be a small restaurant sign (a few years back I saw it)
When they say it isn’t “educational”, it is no less educational than the Smithsonian. Given the political bent of the Smithsonian these days, I am sure they probably provide LGTB/Homosexual “context” to exhibits like the Enola Gay that Collings likely doesn’t.
Horse hooey to all this. This is liberalism and small town NIMBY/Anti-Military politics at play here, in my opinion.
This type of thing isn’t limited to Stow, Massachusetts, I can assure you. Stow is a little different than many because they are so bloody restrictive. I don’t know what it is like now, but there is a dearth of restaurants in Stow because they used to mandate something along the lines that no dishes or dishwashers could be used in a business, so they all had to use disposable, which of course, limited the types of eateries you could run. (that was a while back, it may have changed now)
Liberals are much more “interested” in small town politics in many areas around the country, because they are simply interested in control.
We, as conservatives, are usually at a disadvantage here, because real conservatives are less interested in holding office to exercise policy, than we likely would be to ensure we enact policy guided by the local bylines and local guidelines that we are at creating new laws for people to have to follow.
Of course, there is a commonality of small town politics everywhere.
I don’t like it when Natick is used by crossword solvers to mean an overly obscure clue. Natick isn’t obscure at all. It is right next to Framingham.
Small town New England can suck as you explained.power hungry liberals at work.Touchy feely BS school boards and all the rest.
We have to stop this “get rid of Massachusetts/California/whatever” type of talk.
It is fun to do, but if you live in a “conservative” state, I promise you, simply cutting out a state isn’t going to save your state from the metastatic cancer of liberalism.
Liberalism needs to be eradicated root and branch. Accepting ANY of the liberal premises (even states like Texas do, though to a lesser extent) is simply a guarantee that, with the one-way-ratchet liberalism is, there will be more of it.
It may well be that liberalism has doomed the country as we know it. But guess what, liberalism panders to the weak minded, and having even a little liberalism accepted is like being a little pregnant, and a dotted line on a map isn’t going to stop it.
For the record, I too would like to send all the types who would vote for any Kennedy to some other country, but they are replenished from an inexhaustible fountain of stupidity, ignorance, and liberalism.
Ft Devens, good to see it in print as it was my former group HQ.
The Collins Foundation should put the word out that they would like to relocate the WWII History Museum.
Communities would clamor to get it in their town. Some may even donate a building and give them a free airplane hanger.
I have seen it at work, been to the meetings, and been related to two people who engaged in it.
My late father, while ostensibly a Democrat, was a DINO to get elected to local office, because you could not get elected any other way back in the Seventies in small town Eastern Massachusetts. He was a plank owner of CITIZENS FOR LIMITED TAXATION in this state, which describes his philosophy pretty well.
He got lots of hate mail and vicious phone calls from people sicc’ed on him by the liberal members of the selectmen and school board, because he was usually the one to not rubber stamp liberal spending. He took it all in stride, which I really admired.
My son and I went to this facility back in the 90s. It was a fascinating collection of not only old warbirds, but also antique automobiles. Talk about a living history lesson to all of us! And they even had a pond, stocked with pan fish and fly rods available to use. I was able to show my young son what fly fishing was all about!
So, I can see why those anti-American bastards in Mass would want to limit or destroy such a resource. They are dedicated to teaching guilt and helplessness to today’s youth as well as revisionist history to generate hate and loathing of their country.
To hell with all liberals!
I disagree. there are whole states that are no longer American. At best, they are European.
To urge their removal is a positive act
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