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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

To be honest, no.  I have much family , but with a few exceptions (and 
outside of my immediate family) I don't have anything to do with family and 
no real interest. 

 Outside of my immediate family, most of my favorite relatives are dead, and 
their rural kids and grandkids have only aspired to try to live city life in 
the woods.  'a ridiculous concept in my book.  If you want to pretend to be a 
city person, you should move to the city.  I want to move to a rural area, 
rural enough, to cleanse myself of the city.

I do know what you mean.  I have family in certain areas of the South that 
have been there as long  as anyone can figure (the first white owners of the 
land.  The Chickasaw and the Cherokee gave them the rights to the land just 
because they were so nice -- I'm seeing if Lynda is reading this post :-) 

I want the relationship to the land more than to people.  Life is short, I 
want that , I don't know how to explain.  I guess you have to be a country 
man spending most of your life in the city to know what I mean.  I want to 
live with the land.  I can meet plenty of people, here (over 5 million)

On the other hand, my wife is a typical middle age woman who likes to 
socialize with middle age women ......bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Music was  Newsweek -
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:40 PM
> Bob...  Do you have connections there,  friends, family that
> have have been in or could resume contact with?   Even if
> there is no practicle value I like associating with some
> people whos granparents grew up with my grandparent.   My
> family had been in this county since the 1830s,  I was born
> in the same house my grandmother was born in, though that
> has been replaced with strip mine.   A lot of the people I
> get along with some old friends some new.   So it makes a
> difference if you are trying to pick up the things were or
> if you are comfortable with the changes that will happened.
> Van Dell
> 
> --- On Fri, 10/24/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Music was  Newsweek -
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 10:25 PM
> > cool bev; thanks for putting the red arrow in the one
> pic. 
> > so, the cleared looking area are where people live and
> all
> > of the grey area is forest?  There doesn't appear
> to be
> > but a few people around you.  Do you have live water
> in all
> > of that expanse of green?  fishable live water?
> > 
> > I'm curious, how to you come to pick
> > "place"?.  I've looked and bought and
> sold in
> > different areas of the country, never can find just
> what I
> > want.  
> > 
> > Part of me says I should go back South, but the old
> Thomas
> > Wolfe line "you can never go home again"
> always
> > comes back to me.  You have been very helpful.  If you
> have
> > any further thoughts, I'm always interested in
> your
> > input .....bobford
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 10/24/08, EarthNSky
> > <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> > > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Music was  Newsweek -
> > > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > > Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:12 PM
> > > I have no idea of how to picture 600000 acres. 
> My
> > house
> > > literally sits 
> > > in the woods.  In one direction, I can see one
> ridge
> > line,
> > > NP woods.  No 
> > > sign of civilization can be seen from my
> > house/yard,,,,just
> > > woods in all 
> > > directions.  There are two or three houses within
> a
> > half
> > > mile, but there 
> > > are more barns here than homes.  I did put the
> aerial
> > shots
> > > from Google 
> > > up on http://www.myspace.com/tervetuloa13
> > > BTW, Tervetuloa means Welcome in Finnish, in case
> > anyone
> > > was wondering.
> > > 
> > > Bev
> > > 
> > > Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >>> Someday, if you ever make it out
> here to
> > the
> > > land of *real* trees, you'll
> > > >> have to come sit on my front deck. 
> > > > 
> > > > Here the deck gives a view of the next
> 600,000
> > acres
> > > to the east an south, 
> > > > all forest and all unoccupied wilderness.
> > > > 
> > > > Lynda can probably say this same thing ....
> it
> > > wasn't by accident!
> > > >
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