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20 acres, and we made an offer (same seller) for an extra lot next door.

I pulled this from Wikipedia. I am in heaven...

"Ithacans support the Ithaca Farmers Market, professional theaters  
(Kitchen Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Icarus Theatre), a civic orchestra,  
much parkland, the Sciencenter, a hands-on science museum for people  
of all ages, and the Museum of the Earth. Ithaca is noted for its  
annual artistic celebration of community: The Ithaca Festival (and its  
parade), the Circus Eccentrithaca. Local live music is very prominent  
in the culture of Ithaca, the home of several nationally known acts  
such as Johnny Dowd, John Brown's Body, Donna the Buffalo, The  
Horseflies, and The Burns Sisters. The Constance Saltonstall  
Foundation for the Arts provides grants and Summer Fellowships at the  
Saltonstall Arts Colony for New York State artists and writers. Ithaca  
also hosts what is described as the third-largest used-book sale in  
the United States. Other festivals occur annually, with music and  
food. These include The Apple Festival in the fall, with many  
different varieties of apples and apple products; Chili Fest in  
February, a local contest involving many local restaurants who compete  
to make the best chili in several different categories.

Many Ithaca-area musicians participate in the Grassroots Festival,  
held in nearby Trumansburg.

Ithaca has also pioneered the Ithaca Health Fund, a popular  
cooperative health insurance. Ithaca is also home to one of the United  
States' first local currency systems, Ithaca Hours, developed by Paul  
Glover (building on the pioneering work of Ralph Borsodi and Robert  
Swann)."




And if all hell breaks loose, it'd be a half a day's ride to town.  
Course, it'd be three days home.... my poor Fat Boy Kipper Pony...  
because it'll be uphill.


I can't shut up. : )