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#2894285 - 11/04/09 08:01 AM History on your doorstep.
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This place is 7 miles south east of where I live , unfortunately now they are building houses on the site.

http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/

This guy was taken for walks along the mountain tops I can see through my front room window !!

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#2894291 - 11/04/09 08:07 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: Simbo 123 SQDN]
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It's always fascinated me people who live near sites of great historical significance. For example, the people who live in Gettysburg, PA. It's a small town so you know that almost everyone who lives there has seen the battlegrounds at least a couple of times.
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#2894299 - 11/04/09 08:14 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Gettysburg is interesting. I went there on a dark December day many years ago. I was staying at an all female school in Chambersburg (another story), and we took a day trip to Gettysburg. Small town, lots of old houses, some still with bullet holes in them from the battle.

I can honestly say I got a real feeling that something bad had happened there.
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#2894337 - 11/04/09 09:01 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: 20mm]
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I was staying at an all female school in Chambersburg (another story)


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#2894340 - 11/04/09 09:11 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: Nixer]
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Believe me, it wasn't that great. They hated having males on their campus for the first time in their history. I mean HATED it. I was there for three weeks, living in a dorm room, putting up with death stares from frankly ugly women. The food in the cafeteria was a horror. I swear, anything that didn't get eaten the first day got made into soup the second day. Including salads. Several times we said the hell with it and hiked into Chambersburg, about a half hour or so away and found a bar and ate and drank there. The steel workers at least put up with us.

Regarding that feeling of something bad happening, I don't think I've had that more than once or twice in my life. But I sure felt it at Gettysburg. And that's what it was, a feeling. I remember standing on a ridge and looking out at where Pickett's Charge had been and I shuddered. Not from the cold. I can't describe it better than that, just an intense feeling.
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#2894348 - 11/04/09 09:22 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: 20mm]
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I was so afraid he was going to tell us about his sex change operation. I really didn't want to ask.
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#2894351 - 11/04/09 09:29 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: Deceptis]
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I skipped that part? Oops.

Wilson College, all girl school since the 1800's.
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#2894356 - 11/04/09 09:35 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: 20mm]
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That wasn't on your resume Mr. 20mm.
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#2894357 - 11/04/09 09:35 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: 20mm]
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20mm had a sex change operation ? I missed that.

Wouldn't have thought that. He (or do I now say she-it) seems such a regular good guy.

I guess I'm an old dinosaur about much of modern culture.
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#2894363 - 11/04/09 09:44 AM Re: History on your doorstep. [Re: oldgrognard]
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Might have something to do with why Magnum just had to get out of LA.
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