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CanisLupusArctos · 04-03-2008, 12:55 PM

Hope this helps cheer things up...

There are no 'old days.' Break-ins have been happening since the beginning of time, along with every other type of crime. In the Bible and many other ancient texts are plenty of references to every kind of evil imaginable. It's just that within any specific place, eras come and eras go... each has its own nice things and its own crimes. I mean, here at Winni, the Old-old days saw tourists and residents always under threat of death from Indian raids (when you're in the Moultonborough Old Country Store go upstairs and see the Indian shutters where the women and children used to hide during the raids). Then things quieted down until an era came where guys with handlebar mustaches drank whiskey over card games and occasionally ended up shooting pistols at each other and those around them.

Those who put up with the threat of death by Indian were also able to stake claims or buy already-claimed property for dirt-cheap... try doing that today. Those who lived with the possibility of taking a bullet from a drunken good ol' boy were also able to ride trains from the lakes region to just about anywhere.... nowadays the only train between Ossipee and Boston carries gravel and the Lincoln-Laconia-Boston rail line stopped regular passenger service in the 60s so we're all stuck paying $3+ a gallon for gas to countries that don't even like us.

But there are a lot of nice things about this era we're in... and some not-so-nice things... and regardless of what they are, this era will give way to something else with new perks and new problems.

04-03-2008, 12:55 PM	#3
CanisLupusArctos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 15 Thanked 472 Times in 107 Posts	A little perspective Hope this helps cheer things up... There are no 'old days.' Break-ins have been happening since the beginning of time, along with every other type of crime. In the Bible and many other ancient texts are plenty of references to every kind of evil imaginable. It's just that within any specific place, eras come and eras go... each has its own nice things and its own crimes. I mean, here at Winni, the Old-old days saw tourists and residents always under threat of death from Indian raids (when you're in the Moultonborough Old Country Store go upstairs and see the Indian shutters where the women and children used to hide during the raids). Then things quieted down until an era came where guys with handlebar mustaches drank whiskey over card games and occasionally ended up shooting pistols at each other and those around them. Those who put up with the threat of death by Indian were also able to stake claims or buy already-claimed property for dirt-cheap... try doing that today. Those who lived with the possibility of taking a bullet from a drunken good ol' boy were also able to ride trains from the lakes region to just about anywhere.... nowadays the only train between Ossipee and Boston carries gravel and the Lincoln-Laconia-Boston rail line stopped regular passenger service in the 60s so we're all stuck paying $3+ a gallon for gas to countries that don't even like us. But there are a lot of nice things about this era we're in... and some not-so-nice things... and regardless of what they are, this era will give way to something else with new perks and new problems.