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  Kommentar till text 23984 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,


 NB>  NB>> Probably.  I slightly misspoke there... Richard's Boy Scout camp
 NB> was  NB>> Sabattis, while Massawepie (I was close on the spelling) was

 RH> No problem, the only Boy Scout camp I knew of is the one my brothers
 RH> went to/younger brother still works at every summer the other side of
 RH> Oneonta.

 NB> There are (or at least were) quite a few in the Adirondacks, too... we
 NB> drive by a third one on our way in to the Pond... just inside the
 NB> Park, on Rt 3...  That one isn't being used, is up for sale now...
 NB> And the
 NB> Girl Scout camp just outside the park (off of Rt 3) also closed and
 NB> was sold off... Camp Trefoil...

Too bad, hopefully the Girl Scouts have another camp in the area.

 NB> staple  NB>> "special"), but were willing to go to Yang's with us, and
 NB> later, to  NB>> Asian buffets with us...  But they prefered to go to
 NB> Olde Country...  NB>> ;)

 RH> My parents got take out occaisionally when a Chinese place opened
 RH> about 25 years ago in town. To the best of my knowledge, didn't go for
 RH> it otherwise (on trips or whatever). Dad doesn't really like rice so it
 RH> was a rarity at home, usually the few times Mom made chop suey. Like
 RH> your parents, a place like Olde Country Buffet was more to their
 RH> liking, or a cheap steakhouse.

 NB> We had rice as a regular thing, not just with the chop suey.. ;)
 NB> Potatoes were rarer, except in stew...  I remember stopping at Howard
 NB> Johnson's a few times on trips, as a major treat...  Mostly we just
 NB> had sandwiches and raw veggies and pretzels in the car...  :)

Dad wanted potatoes more than rice. Some years ago when they ran out of
potatoes in the spring, they spent several hours trying to chase some
down. I guess stores had closed (Easter Sunday?) which made finding them
almost impossible. but, Dad did not want to, and did not, eat rice with
his Sunday dinner. We had a lot of sandwiches on road trips as well, or,
depending on the length, just had to go hungry until we got to our
destination.

 NB>  NB>> I don't think I shed the accent at all.. I only picked up bits
 NB> of  NB>> various ones here and there, so wherever I went, I've never
 NB> quite had  NB>> the accent of the area... nor, really, of anywhere
 NB> else in
 NB>  NB>> particular... I'll pick up speech patterns and vocabulary from
 NB>  NB>> wherever, whoever, and let them slip away as others come to the
 NB>  NB>> forefront...

 RH> Steve picks up vocabulary, but not any sort of accent. Three years
 RH> after he moved to NC (the first time), we met someone from Rochester at
 RH> a conference in Kentucky. He recognised Steve's accent right away but
 RH> thought I was a native southerner (after living in NC 2 years).

 NB> Funny, sometimes, how accents do morph or not... ;)

As they say in Maine, "aye-yep". (G)

 NB>  NB>> Pretty much... and to give me research tips along the way from
 NB> her own  NB>> experiences...  ;)

 RH> And did you pass any of that on to nieces or nephews?

 NB> A little, as there was any interest...  :)  I did take one niece with
 NB> me once up to Kingston, I think it was, somewhere that area anyway,
 NB> and put her to work abstracting some birth/death records for the
 NB> family... :)

Kingston is only an hour from where I grew up; we passed thru on our way
to M'ville in December, back south in January.


 NB> I stumbled into  NB>> some lovely troves of information... ;)  She was
 NB> quite envious of my  NB>> beginner's luck... ;)

 RH> OK, Steve's dad is from Snyder County--McClure. Some of the family
 RH> still lives there, as do the friends I made the one quilt for.

 NB> Not quite the same place... :)   My great-grandfather moved first to
 NB> Altoona, where granddad was born, and then near Pittsburgh for a
 NB> while... He was an engineer that helped build bridges and for the

Interesting, the bits of history you learn. My mom's dad was an
investment banker on Wall Street and helped figure financing for some
major projects across the country.

 NB> trains... One of my great-aunts was born in Mexico, while he was
 NB> working for a railroad down there... :)

Whoops! I know what you mean, but how it reads is funny.

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Ruth
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