Northeast Get-to-gether (Saws, Pit & Food!)

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There's no coast on the west of CT. :p I think that CT is a good central location

PA is not in the Northeast. Anything south of CT is The South, putting NYC deep in the heart of Dixie.

Excuse me, NYC is not deep in the heart of "Dixie" :mad:

:p
 
LOL born & raised in midwest & even I knew that....
 
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Thinking event logistics, this might make things easier. It might also convince members here to host. Instead of 1 big meet up, why don't we break into 3, or say 4 meet ups geographically on the same date. One midwest, one in the Keystone state and one in New England. Let's even let the west coast guys get one going. This way, we could keep groups reasonably small and share photos via real time. Am I crazy?
 
Thinking event logistics, this might make things easier. It might also convince members here to host. Instead of 1 big meet up, why don't we break into 3, or say 4 meet ups geographically on the same date. One midwest, one in the Keystone state and one in New England. Let's even let the west coast guys get one going. This way, we could keep groups reasonably small and share photos via real time. Am I crazy?

Hmm, chapters?
 
Here's what we do......everyone who wants to let's get together on this site on 9/1/12 .Bring all of the booze and food that you want. We can have a virtual get together. Hey let's face it, it may be the only way this is gonna happen. We can't even agree where the Northeast is, how the hell are we gonna agree on a date!
 
Any word as to when Woodstock is having their open house this year? That was a good time. I'm planning on going again this year.
 
Excuse me, NYC is not deep in the heart of "Dixie" :mad:

:p


It's all relative. Sometimes I have to drive through CT- which is one of the worst states to drive through, and then declare that CT is in the South. I know folks in NH that say I live in MA because I'm south of Concord.
 
It's all relative. Sometimes I have to drive through CT- which is one of the worst states to drive through, and then declare that CT is in the South. I know folks in NH that say I live in MA because I'm south of Concord.

I guess that would put me in Ecuador....or at least Guatemala.
 
I certainly agree it would be nice to meet each other. However, it does seem that most of us do enough work getting our wood supplies together, working on our homes, etc.,etc. And most of you guys do more tree work, c/s/s than I do. I personally do not want to be working if I have the opportunity to meet up with some of you guys. Jack Straw's idea of food and drink sounds like it a good idea. Maybe there is somewhere we could meet that all of us would be interested in seeing as well. A large saw mill we could get a tour of, a lumberjack type museum, a wood burning appliance place. I don't know. Just throwing those out there. A chance to relax, talk with each other, enjoy one or two nights and days not having to do any work. I know I have to actually leave my home and go away sometimes so that I will really take some time off when I have time off. If I stay home I find that I usually work harder when I am off from work. Weather it be c/s/s wood, working on the house/yard, helping out a family member on a project they have going on there house, etc. etc. Not trying to change your idea Stax. Just adding my two cents in. I live close to the border, sometimes that is with Canadian pennies.

Too bad I'm off here in the northeast corner . . . there are actually a couple of places here in Maine that would have fit the bill . . . off the top of my head I could come up with several places of interest.

Tour of the Bucksport Paper Mill . . . I think they still offer that -- I know my brother took his first wife (ex wife #1) there on their honeymoon.

Leonards Mill Logging Museum. http://www.leonardsmills.com/livinghist.html

For fans of the old stoves there is Bryant Stove Works. http://www.bryantstove.com/

And of course the Jotul factory is here in southern Maine . . . well south to me at least.

Plenty of camping spots . . . plenty of woods . . . only negative is the location.
 
It's all relative. Sometimes I have to drive through CT- which is one of the worst states to drive through, and then declare that CT is in the South. I know folks in NH that say I live in MA because I'm south of Concord.

Folks here in Maine claim that any place south of Augusta is Northern Massachusetts. ;)
 
Folks here in Maine claim that any place south of Augusta is Northern Massachusetts. ;)
A couple hunnert years ago, all of Maine was N.MA. I know you folks in mill country don't get out that much though ;lol
 
A couple hunnert years ago, all of Maine was N.MA. I know you folks in mill country don't get out that much though ;lol

Yeah . . . a fact that most Mainers don't like to admit . . . well except for the third Monday in April . . . on that day we don't mind the fact that we were once part of Massachusetts. ;)

Actually, the story of how Maine broke away and why is kind of interesting . . . as many folks know it happened around the time of the Civil War to "balance" things out state-wise . . . but the movement to break away goes back many years before as some residents in the Maine "territory" felt Massachusetts was not doing enought to provide protection and services -- perhaps a valid complaint in the wake of the numerous British incursions into Castine, up the Penobscot River, etc.
 
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It's all relative. Sometimes I have to drive through CT- which is one of the worst states to drive through, and then declare that CT is in the South. I know folks in NH that say I live in MA because I'm south of Concord.

pay no attention to those folks AP...they are the same ones who think the White Mountains are "Up North", never been through the notch, and don't know what the Great North Woods are. "After Lake Winnapsaukee is Canadia right?". I tell people you're from MA cuz you have nice teeth (dead give away that you're "not from round these parts"). NH is centrally located between Greenland and Arkansas...basically equidistant to all of Hearth.com.
 
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