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Subject: Gene's dream...

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Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 10:32:11 07/19/05 Tue
In reply to: Gene 's message, "Lost in space 2,,,," on 08:33:05 07/19/05 Tue

Gene -

Hudson was indeed busier before the advent of mall culture drove shopping out of town - but you can't blame that on FoH - although I'm sure you'll try. There was more traffic in the past - especially on "Diamond Street." Is that the past you long for?

Stockbridge is a two-street town with half a dozen stores and three restaurants- so a few hundred tourists make it seem crowded. Warren Street is a mile long, and much development is now going on on the side streets as well - so many more tourists can disappear in the scores of stores and restaurants. If you want a fair gauge of how busy the town is, try to get a seat in a restaurant anywhere on Warren Street at lunch time, Friday, Saturday or Sunday (and on other days too during the summer!)

There are no "NIMBYS" around here that I know of, except people like you and Tom who don't want those with different values and different points of view in your "backyard."

The truth is that conservation easements have saved much land from development already, and helped many small farmers keep their land and go on working it.

The farms that are closing are dairy farms - and their closing is at least partly the fault of poor national Farm Policy, that favors Agribusiness at the expense of family farms.

But intervention by local organizations (including the Columbia County Land Conservancy) has helped new farms start up and expand, particularly in the specialty foods and organics sectors, which are some of the fastest growing and most profitable parts of the agricultural economy.

Those are the facts, Gene, your fond dreams of yesteryear notwithstanding.

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