I think I'm going to love it in Maine~

[CoastalMaine]

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[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

Being 'from away' I suppose you would have that notion! lol At least we can agree we're all Americans.

True. As you say, I am 'from away'. I am from California.

So I really do not have a dog in that fight.

Tell you what though, I really like Maine.

I think that most anyone who decides to come to Maine would also like it here.

East coast folks can argue all they want to about who did what during their little tif with the British.



My Maternal ancestors trace their lineage back to William Bradford [a Mass. politician in the 1600s].

My Paternal ancestors trace back to a fur trapper in Missouri in the 1790s. We have no idea where he came from before he got to Missouri. [for that matter how many folks were in Missouri in the 1790s? I do not imagine there were very many].



Having been stationed in Virginia, I have visited some of their museums. They do seem to foster the idea that folks in Virginia had some contribution in the process of fighting the Brits.

And I also am a member of a men's fraternity; one of their lodge meetings had to close early one evening so the men could go put on costumes and dump some tea in a harbor. The lodge minutes are still available for folks to read.

Of course those same lodges exist today in most communities up and down the East coast, as they exist across the nation.



In my travels, there ain't no place in the nation as nice as Maine

[7th generation]

This thread has gone 'round the world-from Vermont to Russia, (with love ,of course), back to the Boston Tea Party and......well, it's drifted from the OP's original intent......so we'll put the lock on it.