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stickbender:

     You're welcome.  It's nice to talk to someone of like experiences.  as for being ridiculed, I have thick skin.  Besides I used to be quite skeptical myself.  Like when I used laugh and tease my Dad about his dreams, till I started to see the results first hand, and then I started to have them my self. As for Ghosts I think they are like UFO's, most can be explained,but the rest......Just can't be dismissed, as swamp gas, hallucinations, cloud refractions, or meteors etc. ...... Good luck rock hunting, You guys should get together and combine your searches, and I hope you find that soap stone quarry.  Go back and talk to the lady you talked to in town, you will find out a little bit more.  Sounds like an interesting town, to visit for a week or so.  Get to know some of the locals a bit.  I'd like to do that.  Let me know, and take pictures of the quarry.
                                                                               wayne
                                                                               

Dane:
D Tiiller, "they are everywhere." :)

I will be going back, and if Rick can join me, all the better. The Putney Diner is very good, too.

I hope I can go this coming weekend, if it doesnt rain all day and night as it did this weekend. And I promise to take lots of pics, I did on the last trip, but all I got were pictures of the forest.

I just talked to a friend about Grafton, she too thinks it is a strange place, so that is not the first time I have heard those kinds of comments. They actually filmed a famous Bud commercial there years ago, the wagon and team of horses in a perfect New England village, if you recall that commercial, that is Grafton. I always get the feeling that every building is empty and there are no actual people living there. I also get the feeling you are being watched closely the moment you get there. Yeah, contradictory feelings, but that is Grafton for you.

Getting to know the locals in New England can be difficult :) I've lived in Greenfield for 10 or more years, and I am still an outsider, and always will be. They may like you and all that, but you never really are felt to be part of the community. The woman I wrote about in the musem is actually from Texas, her dad grew up in Grafton, but she only arrived lately, so she too will always be an outsider. That is why I got so much info from her about the surrounding area. She showed me photos and told me about this wierd pavilion you can rent for the day for family picnics and events, but there are no roads leading to it, you have to pack in through the woods and across some fields. Vermont is typical in that way. They dont make it easy for you, lol. They didnt get universal electricity service until after WWII.

Apparently, there is a haunted old school house in town, I will be checking that out as well next time I go there. What I read was that you can see a shadow on one wall of a hand holding a ruler, and at times, chalk boards appear and disappear on the walls.

Dane

stickbender:

     Man sounds like my kinda town.  Uh......about those feelings in town, you didn't by any chance eat any of the brownies at the Putney Diner, did you?  Just wondering.  Oooh, about the school house, I was going to say be careful of getting smacked by a ruler, when I read the part about the shadow of the ruler......ooooweeeeooooo ,man I have got to make plans to go there.  As for not being accepted, maybe a few extra " Ay-ups " might help......  Yeah, take Rick with you.  He can warn you when the ruler goes in your direction......also the ghosts always go for the friend first......That way you will know when to vacate the premises at warp speed.  By all means take pictures, and of the School House also.  Keep us posted. 

                                                                     Wayne

Dane:
Will do, Wayne. And you can bet I wont be the guy saying "hey, let's go look in the basement filled with warm human blood...and what about that attic torture room? Someone go look there, too. Split up everyone..and the guy in the wheelchair, stay here and keep an eye out."

Pictures will be posted, no matter what I find.

But don't use Ayeup around here. That is up in Maine, not Vermont and Massachusetts. :)

Dane

D. Tiller:
"Holy Wah!"

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