Text 15098, 77 rader
Skriven 2014-05-10 13:46:20 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 15094 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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Hi Tim,

>> ago, > and I'm really glad when people out here take me for a Westerner,
>> and not a > `transplanted' New Yorker!

>> Perhaps a depressed area $$-wise and otherwise.

>Not really. There are several saw mills down there. My youngest son works in a
>kiln...makes decent money. Owns his own house right across the street from the

So you're saying your son is one of these dickheads you've run across in NY?
That's a shame <g>  If not then you're full of it... and only saying people in
NY are dickheads to get a reaction out of people when you know it's not true.

> Walk out my son's back door with shotguns, go into the woods behind the house
> and down the wooded hill to banks of the Genesee River to hunt rabbits and
> pheasants. Or throw a line into the river and fish for trout and bass.

Sounds like where I grew up in Warwick NY.  Warwick has changed a great deal
since I grew up there - Old money runs things there and even though the
population has exploded over the years with an influx of people from NYC, the
folks with the old money still run things.

>> Never been there.

> You're not missing much. The town has a flashing caution light at the three-
> way intersection of two state routes which represents the `center' of town!

Sounds exactly like Warwick.

> it. And...(I know this will seem funny, but its real!), by the time you come
> out of the store with your bottle in a brown bag to go back in the bar to pay
> for it...about half the town will know you bought something in the liquir
> store! I kid you not! Its like a friggin' telegraph system there! Everybody
>knows what you're doing and where you are, all the time...then call each other
> on the phone and talk about it! Its like a live friggin' soap opera!

Small-town-itis.. hehe.. really just like Warwick was back when I was a
teenager.

>> I did see Janis Joplin and Big Brother at the Filmore East but somehow I
>> think they are NOT related Lol


> That was back in 1968 or 69! I was in Vietnam then, my sons lived up in

Yep..

> Joplin's dead of a heroin overdose. She was around 26 or 27.

Yes, quite a drag to hear about back then.

>> BTW, growing up in Orange County NY meant we had (and still have) a more
>> mid-western accent.. probably from watching Johnny Carson on TV <g>.

> Orange County New York is just above New York City. Its almost in
> Pennsylvania.

Very close to the PA border.. 45 min. to NYC, about 15min. to NJ.  I used to
take a bus to NYC most every weekend when I was a teenager to visit the museums
and science centers... Mom and dad were from Scranton PA.. they moved first to
NJ then to Warwick NY when my dad saw a map of where an atomic bomb would
hit..(really <g>) and Warwick was in a "safe" area haha... Mom's youngest
brother is the astrophysicist who developed better heat shields for Nasa after
the early shuttle's heat shields failed. He's retired now, but still works on
the Mars project.

> People are far different in Pensylvania and surrounding areas
> than hard-line New Yorkers. Nicer folk down that way.

Yep, definitely true.. so they're not all dickheads :)

Take care,
Janis

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