tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post2314071351858946552..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Only On The MapAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-36099323942337519222010-08-24T11:29:01.748-04:002010-08-24T11:29:01.748-04:00NE cemeteries can be fascinating. The fanciest gra...NE cemeteries can be fascinating. The fanciest gravestone by far in a cemetery in my hometown had an engraving about "vale of tears." I found it amusing to have such ostentation- not a trait valued in NE- coupled with that engraving. Is that an instance of gravestone humor?Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61054827768816762082010-08-22T09:36:46.570-04:002010-08-22T09:36:46.570-04:00Maine is like that too, with the mysterious villag...Maine is like that too, with the mysterious villages. Only some of ours actually have zip codes. Makes it interesting if you are trying to contact the local government. then there are the villages that do not exist any more but some of the real old folk still refer to that general part of town by the village name.<br /><br />I would say that as a whole Maine is a lot less "cute" than New Hampshire. It was a lot less settled and a lot more unpleasant place to live back in the day. In some of the smaller towns, the heartbreak of the early (and current) residents is clearly visible. <br /><br />Furthermore, there are a lot of places in Maine that were settled only in the late 1800s and abandoned in the 1990s. Just enough time for people to figure out that you can't live there successfully. Even before Europeans, the state did not have very many natives.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05456587175845040114noreply@blogger.com