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Date Posted: 09:54:07 05/16/10 Sun
Author: Bill
Author Host/IP: 71.250.73.127
Subject: Re: Green Mountain is one of my favorites.
In reply to: morgan 's message, "Re: Green Mountain is one of my favorites." on 18:07:23 05/15/10 Sat

Cooperstown is a wonderful place. I have a friend ( a baseball nut ) who goes there every year and can't say enough about how nice it is. I wish it was not so far away from here or I would take a drive up there myself.
One of the nice things about the area is it is not yet taken over by the city people who tend to try and change things into what they are more comfortable with. Rather the area tends to change people instead which can't be said of more accessible locations nearer to major metro areas.
Things we used to take for granted here have been changed by development and alteration into something less pleasant and more intrusive. More rural areas have a lot more to offer if only because they are not beingchanged all the time to suit someones ideas of what is appropriate or desireable when they fail to see the good aspects of leaving things alone.
I've been watching some pilleated woodpeckers tearing up the downed logs around here while the robin and jay populations have exploded. almost hit a deer the other day on the back road to town when it came streaking across the deer path that crosses the road behind the homes on the adjoining street. That path goes behind where the yuppies have built Mc Mansions and comes trough on the other side of the lake after joining the path I used to walk to get back from the grammer school by going through the woods and beat the bus home which goes out the fields behind where the baseball field used to be then through the woods and over Deer ridge and past Hunter drive where we had another FC student living for a while when he was going to FC.

Wightmans farms here still grows apples and makes their own apple products. Good cider and cider doughnuts. Kenny wightman has sold off a lot of the familly farm though with part of it now the town ball field and other parts now housing developments. Still sort of rural though because we are between the national park and the national wildlife refuge and development in the town is also somewhat limited. Still a lot of the farms are gone now either developed for housing or added to the wildlife refuge or put into conservation holdings. Used to be a lot like what Cooperstown is supposed to be now.

I Love Goat cheese by the way ....

b

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