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The previous north Georgia generation had Thunder Road as its image.
Moonshine, fast cars. I still tend to flick my beams when going through
mountains....

And we had some feral hogs shot in our kudzu field this fall...
There's still at least one which weighs over 300 pounds out there,
according to a former neighbor (moved away) who saw it. A few weeks later,
she saw the cougar who ran through our front yard. We have a new owl living
in our barn...cute little thing... silver gray about a foot tall and a
mournful hoot which starts the dog howling....

On our 4 mile long road, our end of the road now has 5 empty houses....
Think it's too remote?

>Still, the movie lingers in folks subconsciousness, and more than one
>person new to our astronomy group has gotten out of the car mocking the
>Deliverance theme music and talking about how far out we live. :)  I
>think the images have scared people enough to avoid our mountains, just
>as the movie Jaws still keeps folks out of the ocean.  That's fine with
>me, cuz like James says, we have a short growing season, lots of bugs
>and mosquitos, snakes every footstep, wild dogs, bears, toothless banjo
>pickers, bad schools, bad roads, etc. etc.
>
>Bev