tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post1433931696265727088..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: 11th Most-visted post - Lost Nation, NHAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61111885185831946412021-02-18T11:01:09.248-05:002021-02-18T11:01:09.248-05:00The post is probably a town bound meant to mark th...The post is probably a town bound meant to mark the boarder from a surveying point of view - not for drivers. The bound is usually labeled with the name of the town on the side that is toward that town. I have a granite one in my backyard in MA as the town border bisects it. In MA, the town Select Board is supposed to "walk the bounds" every 10 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-82809672781751712252019-11-14T14:31:24.497-05:002019-11-14T14:31:24.497-05:00I am reminded of Mel Brooks' Indian chief in B...I am reminded of Mel Brooks' Indian chief in Blazing Saddles. Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1147513027986093552019-09-02T13:50:31.102-04:002019-09-02T13:50:31.102-04:00Just drove thru lost nation....beautiful Just drove thru lost nation....beautiful Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09651600748575770396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-76870907093268046832016-10-29T00:36:19.607-04:002016-10-29T00:36:19.607-04:00I currently live on the town line where the photo ...I currently live on the town line where the photo of the marker. It now has been updated and painted, plus town sogns corrected. One thing to note, MANY delivery vehicles get all turned around by the home numbering, as it doesn't make any sense at all. Most of my neighbors have a lancaster mailing address, as do I. Whenever someone uses GPS to find me, which I am number one, it brings them about a mile away from my home, closer to the rock in your story. Living here in this valley for over a decade has been a blessing. Watching wild life, year after year. Following the families of fox play, deer chasing each other across the fields. A passing moose or a wild turkey or ten. At night the howling of wild coy dogs. One year a linx crossed my yard leaving footprints in the snow, mind you before I got a real good camera with zoom to prove it really was a linx....anyhow, I loved your story and I love living on lost nation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06992765459248342423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14888693350627352882015-03-01T06:06:37.870-05:002015-03-01T06:06:37.870-05:00I grew up in Lost Nation about a mile from Groveto...I grew up in Lost Nation about a mile from Groveton. The only story I heard as a child as to how the area was named went something like this. <br /><br />In the early 1800's a preacher traveling through the area in the month of August stood at the pulpit of the church located near the town line of Lancaster and Northumberland. That Sunday morning most of the locals were hard at work in the fields bringing in the summer crop of hay. As the preacher looked out over the very meager congregation that summer morning, his first words were "Lord help this poor lost nation".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07276736018815382579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49530349049898589152013-04-03T20:55:03.009-04:002013-04-03T20:55:03.009-04:00Thanks for dropping by, Laura. Did you live in Co...Thanks for dropping by, Laura. Did you live in Colebrook? I have some updates on people from there.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-8252396834444628502013-04-03T10:06:22.658-04:002013-04-03T10:06:22.658-04:00My Mother lived in Lost Nation when she was little...My Mother lived in Lost Nation when she was little, my Grandfather Allen P Clark was a farmer there. I was amazed when I went there 30 + years ago and there was still some old homesteads just rotten away, the farm house my mother lived in as a child fell down and all that was left was a roof. Went to Colebrook NH three years ago and it looked very diffrent. A lot of history there.Laura Utgardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00608395526051402613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-79690836738685856182012-09-16T11:20:45.979-04:002012-09-16T11:20:45.979-04:00My Grandparents lived at the beginning of Lost Nat...My Grandparents lived at the beginning of Lost Nation Road, near the Big Rock School House. Cotton families lived on that farm since the early 1800's. I know the area well, a granddaughter of Newell J. Cotton of Cotton's Comments fame in the Coos County Democrat.Ruthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-82334122002438827442011-10-26T23:03:48.410-04:002011-10-26T23:03:48.410-04:00There is signal processing programs that can handl...<i>There is signal processing programs that can handle that level of obfuscation, and I've heard of operations that send to image to a boiler room full of menials to solve them.</i><br /><br />I might need to go back to the shrink for another evaluation. I can not believe I (FSVO "I") wrote that.<br /><br />There ARE signal processing programs that can handle that level of obfuscation, and I've heard of operations that send THE image to a boiler room full of menials FOR INTERPRETATION and INPUT.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see what that looks like in the morning.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86001571818582967552011-10-26T18:26:42.074-04:002011-10-26T18:26:42.074-04:00There is signal processing programs that can handl...There is signal processing programs that can handle that level of obfuscation, and I've heard of operations that send to image to a boiler room full of menials to solve them.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-64210068941143441942011-10-26T17:32:42.895-04:002011-10-26T17:32:42.895-04:00Yeah, I never have figured that out.Yeah, I never have figured that out.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21162454041712547742011-10-26T13:47:20.387-04:002011-10-26T13:47:20.387-04:00Seems like the spambots have been making real inro...Seems like the spambots have been making real inroads here lately. I wonder how they deal with the word verification?Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54082053925794723372011-10-26T01:11:37.511-04:002011-10-26T01:11:37.511-04:00Ewwww. spam.Ewwww. spam.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-57899661046777814472011-10-25T18:45:00.842-04:002011-10-25T18:45:00.842-04:00Yes, I ran across that while reading up on the NH ...Yes, I ran across that while reading up on the NH version. Similar obscurity and speculation on origin.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-8707255386023901782011-10-25T17:29:02.414-04:002011-10-25T17:29:02.414-04:00The Lost Nation town history at the first site agr...The Lost Nation town history at the first site agrees with your conjecture about the name being a reference (possibly joking in this case) to the 'lost tribes'.Der Hahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967487071137862252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-12654746376280730952011-10-25T17:26:27.654-04:002011-10-25T17:26:27.654-04:00There is also a Lost Nation in Iowa not far from w...There is also a Lost Nation in Iowa not far from where I live.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lostnationiowa.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">A couple of</a> websites <a href="http://www.lostnationiowa.org/" rel="nofollow">about the town.</a>Der Hahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967487071137862252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-38199425127410568212011-10-25T16:27:31.011-04:002011-10-25T16:27:31.011-04:00Many years ago the only "reasonable" rou...Many years ago the only "reasonable" route from where my parents lived in Southern California to Sunnyvale where we lived was via Stockton. (Pacheco Pass was a deadly horror and slower than you might think possible.)<br /><br />Ask my family about the shortcut we tried over Mt. Hamilton one time.<br /><br />I like your story. You may have a calling if your day job doesn't pan out.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-70952004328877987062011-10-25T16:14:47.644-04:002011-10-25T16:14:47.644-04:00It didn't look too hard on the map. The name ...It didn't look too hard on the map. The name of the place is Lost Nation. Isn't it fairly obvious what's going to happen next? Sigh. When will I learn?<br /><br />BTDTLarry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.com