Originally Posted by n2ize
Are you sure you dont mean the Appalachians? Or my current neighborhood?
Are you sure you dont mean the Appalachians? Or my current neighborhood?
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
These are Northeast Hippies. They're different from California Hippies.
LOL yeah, I think Appalachians is more like it. The Adirondacks are full of artsy hippies and rich people with huge lakefront homes.
Friendly folks who usually have decent pot?
Is that the "California" Hippies ......or the "Kalifornia" Hippies ? ....assuming a subset as suggested by you know who.......
I'm not sure if you can change the meaning of someone's social status by changing the spelling of a place into something derogatory......
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
What about the Catskills?
Depends on what part of the Adirondacks you go to. Some counties in the Adirondacks are quite poor. I have a friend who has a camp up in Old Forge. You don;t find any rich yuppies there or even any artsy hippies.. Just locals who are anything but rich. Back in the early 1990's I was hiking through Garnet lake and came across several homes along a dirt road bordering the lake and they didn't even have electricity. And this was around 1991! If they need electricity they either r have to generate it themselves or simply do things the old fashioned way. Fulton County was similar as well as several communities around Schroon lake and New Russia.
I was kidding around about the banjo's and moonshine. However you will hear the crack of a rifle or a shotgun now and then. Most of the locals I met were actually very friendly and easy going. And they are anything but rich. Most of them grew up in the area. I think the rich types with big money and huge lakefront properties or the artsy hippie types are found clustered around Lake George, Glenns Falls, and some of the more popularized areas. But when you get off the beaten trail you find locals with a long history of living up there, rednecks, woodchucks, moose, deer, elk, bears and, during the right season...blackflies.
Last edited by n2ize; 10-05-2012 at 01:38 AM.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
We got some here. You can here gunshots all the time now that hunting season has begun...
Hippies? There's plenty in New Paltz where SUNY has a college.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
Theres no right season for black flies.
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
You do have a point about Old Forge and some other areas. I actually almost moved to Old Forge back in the early 90's when I was still young and sorta free and I lived in Little Falls and Dolgeville for a few years, which if you don't know, is just a smidge south of the park border. The way you made it sound though, these people are like southern hillbillies and quite frankly, as you clarified, nothing could be further from the truth. I lived down south too, in Southwest Virginia and I traveled all over the place down there, including to many remote places on hilltops that accommodated transmitter sites. Same as when I lived in Little Falls, because I always worked on transmitters. There's definitely a huge difference between a southern hillbilly and an Adirondacker, despite their both being able to live off the land.
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