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

ah....erm....guess I fit into that description too! Trying to lose it tho...ever notice how easy it is to get, and SO hard to lose?!

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

LOL born & raised in midwest & even I knew that....

Aye laddie.

That guy's wearing a skirt and carrying a pole....Just sayin'

Well...you can tell him that. I think he'll disagree.

Good luck with that.

we call it chunky dunk...

we call it 'scaring the living HELL out of the whole damm neighborhood'........

Heard that.........

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?

Yeah.... Your here aren't you???

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.

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.

Florida is so far south, it may be north of me. Have to check.

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.

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

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.

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.