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That may often be true, but E. Haven *does* still often record the coldest temperatures in the lower 48; get out your guns, Ehan Allen, this time the attack's on the easter frontier! :)
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Dear Helen (of troy) I once met a meteorologist who spent some time on Mt. Washington ... listening to his stories about the weather up there dissipated any small inclination I had to make the trip!
I'll make do with the video. The NH PBS station did a good program on the Mountain including shots of the station covered in ice ... and it wasn't even winter!
Oh, if you search for "Mount Washington+New Hampshire" in the quotes, up come several interesting links.
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Yes, Franconia Notch is beautiful, as is Dicksville notch-- and the road up to Errol-- along the Adroscggin river a patch of federally protected wilderness-- along with 7 mile rapids-- some of the best white water for rafting on the East coast is not to be missed either-- but as beautiful as NH is, I think Nova Scotia in canada is better-- it is, i think, the most ruggedly beautiful place on the east coast.
Antigonish in the North is one of those out of the way places-- that everyone should get to--(getting to NS from NY is like driving half way to Europe--almost 1500 miles!)
(and what is a gonish anyway that people are against it?)
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(and what is a gonish anyway that people are against it?)
Gaw nichts! (Gar nichts! ("nothing") :)) :))
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Intercourse PA
I was waiting for someone to mention the famous Lancaster county town(s). Indeed, Intercourse is about 4 miles east of Bird in Hand on Rt. 308.
BUT WAIT -- THERE'S MORE (as they say in TV commercials):
If you go from Bird in Hand south 1 mi. to Rt. 30 and east 2 miles, you come to Paradise. On the other hand (or other something) if you go from Intercourse north about 5 mi. to Rt. 23 thence east about 6 mi. to the junction with Rt. 322, you are in the town of Blue Ball. You can make the whole circuit in a half hour and the area between Rt. 30 and Rt. 23 is beautiful and interesting, as most of the farms are owned by either Mennonites or Amish. (You can tell which ones are Amish -- they have no power lines or telephone lines and you are likely to see the peculiar clothes hanging outside on lines to dry.)
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"Troy is up near Schenectady, NY"
Nope. It's a suburb of Detroit. Right next to Rochester.
Oh, c'mon now, Rochester isn't any where near Schenectady! It's a good four hour drive on the Thruway!
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Geez, Sparteye, you guys stole all our town names. Next thing you're gone tell me you got South Lyon there in Michigan. Yes, a town is the equivalent of a township. You cannot be outside of a town in NYS (NYC may be an exception to this) Some towns have cities in them or some cities may even encompass several towns. Some towns will have villages (certain population required to count as a village) or hamlets (fewer people than a village) and some are just towns with no subcategories within them. Some other classical names in my neck-o-the-woods; Rome, Romulus, Etna, Podunk, Cincinnatus... What, you say Podunk's not classical? Well, it is around here! Hmmph!  (Hi, E)
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Who called Podunk "Podunk" and why does it have such a bad reputation, anyway?
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Yes, i think you are right, Faldage-- (oh and by the by, before i forget--it's coming up to the new year isn't it? Happy New Year)
NYC is made up of 5 NYstate counties-- NY county (manhattan) Kings county(Brooklyn) Richmond county (Staten Island, Queens county and Bronx county. the only "towns" that survive are on a federal level--
every county, (in NYC) has 1 "Central Post Office" and 1 Post master general-- except for Queens- Queens county had 3 town, each with its own "central PostOffice, and post master general-- before it joined NYC, and it still does! the three "towns" are Long Island City, Flushing, and Jamaca. So there are 3 major zip code groups for queens 112, 113,114-- Manhattan has 2, 100 and 101-- but 101 is really a building code-- some building in NY are large enough to get there own zip code.. and then 101 is used--
There has been for years, talk of 1 central post office for queens-- but Post master general is an appointed postition-- out side the reach of civil service-- no one want to lose the "patronage" job--.
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I like that; I can say I come from New York, New York, New York :)
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