Live Free or Die... is N.H's motto
i'm a tad further south. traditionally N.H has had LESS taxes and more
participation in gov't on the local level. admittedly in New England,
getting a legal quorum in a town meeting during a year when there
are no hot under the collar issues causes local selectmen to lock the
doors on the happy few who gather if they be only the few, just so all
town matters can come legally under concideration and be voted on.
A direct access for civic minded people is at the core of this process.
people who grow up under a system where the county level gov't is strong,
pervasive and effective often don't realize that the annual town meeting is
where 90% of the major decisions in N.H are made. counties are also often
an afterthought in the Bay State, even though we in Taxachusetts are
cognicent how much larger by comparison our state gov't apparatus is...
If quite a few Ron Paul people now move up to N.H and start to veto
excessive spending by NEW HAMPSHIRE's standards, and sloooowwwly
develop a speech pattern like the up state local twang, eventually you
just might be thought to be a frugal fiscally sound rock ribbed Robert Frost
readin' .... Yankee ... though this might take a while. my late father, who
was a mix of the orange and the green, who was totally irish, took until his
70th year of life to be thought a "townie" in the town he grew up in from
early childhood onwards. this in his twilight years gave him such a feeling
of belonging when he heard said "we old timers have got to stick together..."
he was told this by a high school chum of his! yankees often don't publically emote
and are quite private, and have wry dry wit that takes new yorkers several
summers to fathom. people add an "H" to words in boston and hyannis
as they drop the ending consonant "R" which is unlike worcester and westward,
where people elongate and over-pronounce the "R" sound, the same way someone
from minnesota does. ...so relax, study quietly one's surroundings and realize
the old rugged individualist rural upcountry Yankee is a dyin' breed. often doomed
somewhat by our mass media culture of the hour. there are those places where
people farm and dairy, there are places where maple syrup is still tapped...
not everything in the "live free or die" state has succumbed to strip malls
and bedroom suburbs. truely you can live in an 1850s or 1900s house for real...
keep in mind, it often does snow in the winter... it also sleets and rains too...then.
the etherial image of wise simplicity is at the core of our regional poet's poet Robert Frost.
THIS BEING SAID, WHERE THE WISEST PRECAUTION IN MIND's EYE IS OUR UNPREDICTABLE
WEATHER... I SAY "GOOD LUCK" TO THE NEW ARRIVALs! AND PLEASE DO KEEP IN MIND
if if if if if if if ONLY 100 to 200 OF YOU SHOW UP AS MARCH STARTS A THAW...THE WISE
SELECTMEN OFTEN DO LOCK DOORs! ...ITs a LOCAL CUSTOM! ....SO GOOD LUCK ONE AND ALL!
Eventually upon voting you actually can go home! Being self determined is a Yankee chore and joy, traditionally!
i'm a tad further south. traditionally N.H has had LESS taxes and more
participation in gov't on the local level. admittedly in New England,
getting a legal quorum in a town meeting during a year when there
are no hot under the collar issues causes local selectmen to lock the
doors on the happy few who gather if they be only the few, just so all
town matters can come legally under concideration and be voted on.
A direct access for civic minded people is at the core of this process.
people who grow up under a system where the county level gov't is strong,
pervasive and effective often don't realize that the annual town meeting is
where 90% of the major decisions in N.H are made. counties are also often
an afterthought in the Bay State, even though we in Taxachusetts are
cognicent how much larger by comparison our state gov't apparatus is...
If quite a few Ron Paul people now move up to N.H and start to veto
excessive spending by NEW HAMPSHIRE's standards, and sloooowwwly
develop a speech pattern like the up state local twang, eventually you
just might be thought to be a frugal fiscally sound rock ribbed Robert Frost
readin' .... Yankee ... though this might take a while. my late father, who
was a mix of the orange and the green, who was totally irish, took until his
70th year of life to be thought a "townie" in the town he grew up in from
early childhood onwards. this in his twilight years gave him such a feeling
of belonging when he heard said "we old timers have got to stick together..."
he was told this by a high school chum of his! yankees often don't publically emote
and are quite private, and have wry dry wit that takes new yorkers several
summers to fathom. people add an "H" to words in boston and hyannis
as they drop the ending consonant "R" which is unlike worcester and westward,
where people elongate and over-pronounce the "R" sound, the same way someone
from minnesota does. ...so relax, study quietly one's surroundings and realize
the old rugged individualist rural upcountry Yankee is a dyin' breed. often doomed
somewhat by our mass media culture of the hour. there are those places where
people farm and dairy, there are places where maple syrup is still tapped...
not everything in the "live free or die" state has succumbed to strip malls
and bedroom suburbs. truely you can live in an 1850s or 1900s house for real...
keep in mind, it often does snow in the winter... it also sleets and rains too...then.
the etherial image of wise simplicity is at the core of our regional poet's poet Robert Frost.
THIS BEING SAID, WHERE THE WISEST PRECAUTION IN MIND's EYE IS OUR UNPREDICTABLE
WEATHER... I SAY "GOOD LUCK" TO THE NEW ARRIVALs! AND PLEASE DO KEEP IN MIND
if if if if if if if ONLY 100 to 200 OF YOU SHOW UP AS MARCH STARTS A THAW...THE WISE
SELECTMEN OFTEN DO LOCK DOORs! ...ITs a LOCAL CUSTOM! ....SO GOOD LUCK ONE AND ALL!
Eventually upon voting you actually can go home! Being self determined is a Yankee chore and joy, traditionally!
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