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Airdale,
Lets not oversell the past as something of idyllic nostalgia that no longer exists. There are good neighbors today just like there were in the past. Just like there were really bad neighbors in the past as there are today. I am sure you can remember some of those as well.
My grandfather on my mothers side was a farmer in Wyoming. He got along well with some of the neighbors. Others tried to kill him and his family (the Johnson County Cattle Wars if you want to Google it). He carried a gun on his hip at all times clear up into the mid-1920's.
In the sixties two of our otherwise friendly neighbors decided they liked each other so much that they took to shooting at each other. The winner dragged the loser into the back of his pickup and drove 60 miles into town and dropped him off at the hospital. Just being neighborly you know.
Generalizations are generally mistaken aren't they?
Wyo
Wyo,
Yep everyone sees life different. What is truth then? Of life?
We didin't live in the old west. We lived in about the center of the USA.
Are there good people out here today? Lots of meth heads,crack heads and the crimes now as opposed to when I was a child are far far off the scale.
I won't belabor the point. What I posted was clearly not a generalization. It was my experience/s.
Idyllic nostalgia. Well when one gets a bit older sometimes thats where your reality seems to be. But more and more I think of that past returning as this nation and the world shuts down.
So I speak of it. Much like I guess those in the FoxFire series of books did. All those people in the FoxFire series are now dead. Wigginton captured them perfectly. And he did us a favor to do so before they and their remembrances passed away.
Many here have no clue as to how it once was. A few do. I think I am one of them. I get a lot of emails that are very positive so I continue.
As I replied to another detractor yesterday who spoke of Verificable Facts vs beliefs....this is Campfire and Nate Hagens stated that a lot would not be 'hard data'. ....
So I disagree with Jason and his depiction of 'farming'...when its really 'gardening'. What is the problem with that?
I spoke of trust and honor in the past. We lived by it. I think if you look closely as where you live and the past you might find it the same. Don't know your age but what I wrote is the truth for I experienced it. Did you or are you passing on what others said?
Airdale
"In the sixties two of our otherwise friendly neighbors decided they liked each other so much that they took to shooting at each other".
In Great Britain and the continent this activity was refined to duelling. I love the diversity of viewpoints on this website! And f#*$@ being p.c! It is time for a little anarchy and, as someone has mentioned, perhaps a revolution is needed!
For those interested in gardening the commons there is a good article on land use reforms at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7898314.stm
Go at this, you drummers.
"In the sixties two of our otherwise friendly neighbors decided they liked each other so much that they took to shooting at each other".
In Great Britain and the continent this activity was refined to duelling. I love the diversity of viewpoints on this website! And f#*$@ being p.c! It is time for a little anarchy and, as someone has mentioned, perhaps a revolution is needed!
For those interested in gardening the commons there is a good article on land use reforms at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7898314.stm
Go at this, you drummers.