Wagon Hill
The owner always keeps a wagon at the crest of the hill. One year some vandals burned it! So he got another one and replaced it. The whole region cheered!
We have passed this spot so many times from our school days to now.
It's in New Hampshire, and seems kind of timeless.
Wagon Hill is in highway 4 in Durham, NH. It is a town property for sledding in winter and the town picnic on the other side of the hill at the water's edge each summer. There is also a dock and, sometimes gundalow rides. The gundalow was a primitive barge which transported Durham stone (granite) to Portsmouth for construction projects.
ReplyDeleteSo, the web address works but has to be entered each time. Anyway, I wanted to add that we had a home in Durham for fifty years.
DeleteWhat web address are you referring to, Hannah? ~ listener
DeleteWil graduated from UNH in 1979. I took classes there and worked at UNH for a time…all in the years BC (before children).
DeleteI absolutely love Durham! Young’s Restaurant was our favourite spot. They finally retired and closed during the pandemic. A great loss. Ah, it’s beautiful there this time of year and the campus is well tended. ~ listener
BIG NEWS!!!
ReplyDeleteAn upset win over the ‘enjoy rape’ MAGA candidate speaks volumes
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Vermont Legislature overrides Governor’s veto of the Pension Reform bill
ReplyDeleteThis was the first time in Vermont state history that a governor’s veto was overridden unanimously!
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DeleteI just read the news story; it's interesting. Out here, certain state workers milk the pension system. To be frank, some defraud it. My experience with 401(k) programs is that they provided a useful income tax offset, but not near as much investment income as they could have. Indeed, some seemed to be just a way for the administrators to profit by churning the accounts. Something simple with low overhead, like the Vanguard funds, is probably a fairly good choice, IF available.
DeleteAnonymous is still waking up--didn't sleep well last night. He is Alan.
DeleteAs an Illinoisan, I understand the bit about kicking the can down the road. It was maybe a dozen years ago the legislature supposedly fixed the pension system. But the "fix" depended on substantially increased funding in later years, and that didn't happen. The pension system is still close to broke.
DeleteThere's been a lot of that going around. The city of Stockton, California, added to the city pension benefits when times were good, and ended up bankrupt, maybe about ten years ago. Everybody got a short haircut.
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Scanning the news this morning, it looks like the Republicans are no longer a political party; they have become a nationwide cat fight.
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Draft Overturning Roe Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas [Click] “Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as “witches,” and whose misogyny stood out even in his time.”
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Well…that explains a few things!!
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I very strongly regret that the radical yahoos in the Supreme Court are well on their way to destroying the general public acceptance of the institution's legitimacy. The sort of things that the US Supreme Court has traditionally dealt with are in most countries considered political questions, to be settled in parliament. I also regret the radicalization of the Republican Party. There is no way to know what will have to endure before we come out the other side of this mess.
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scotusblog: How the leak[s] might have happened [Click]
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Having nothing to personally regret in the matter, I will simply resent it. 😉
DeleteVia politicalwire.com: [Click]
ReplyDeleteImmigration Clamp Down Causing Labor Shortage
The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage that’s partly fueled by a drop-off in immigration, which ground to a halt during the pandemic, the AP reports.
By some estimates, the U.S. now has 2 million fewer immigrants than it would have if the pace had stayed the same.
Gee, who could possibly foreseen that! And how much has that decreased Social Security and Medicare funding, hmmmmm?
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion review: stirring study of what Roe v Wade helped vanquish [Click] “As the supreme court attacks women’s rights, Nell McShane Wulfhart’s story of ‘a workplace revolution at 30,000ft’ is timely.”
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ReplyDeleteWow! We May Actually See a Picture of Milky Way Black Hole On May 12! [Click]
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Yes, please!!! Black Holes are my favourite celestial entity!
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The Day America Almost Nuked Itself (literally!)
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