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I lived for 45 years in a house that sported a view of Virginia from the upper deck. I have lived for 79 years south of the Mason-Dixon line, 76 of those years in the most liberal county in the United States. I'm not at all proud of that.

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 431604)

What county is that?

I resided in Virginia nearly 15 years and miss it.

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Originally Posted by Alfred Houde (Post 431599)

My recent Green Top impulse purchase. It was listed on their website as a 16-gauge Citori Lightning. I drove down to take a look at it and saw that it was an as new, Gran Lightning.

Nice awhile back I had a 28” Lightening 16 from when they first started making them as well as an Upland Special 16 24” .

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Originally Posted by Ian Civco (Post 431638)

What county is that?

I resided in Virginia nearly 15 years and miss it.

I do believe if I was to move from the Old Dominion and still live in the USA , South Carolina might just be my first choice

With the exception of Atlanta, Georgia is about as good as it gets, IMHO. To paraphrase Phil Sheridan, if I owned Atlanta and Hell, I’d rent out Atlanta and live in Hell.

Ian, it is Montgomery County, Maryland, reputed to be the most liberal county in the US. Ugh!

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 431643)

Ian, it is Montgomery County, Maryland, reputed to be the most liberal county in the US. Ugh!

I worked in that county 1995 to 2004. I’m surprised that it’s that way now, I thought that distinction would go to a New England, New York, or California county.

I always lived in Virginia those years, however.

Liberalism is the downfall of this country but so many fail to realize it.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow (Post 431601)

We had New Yorkers that fought for the South in my multiple family trees’ lines and the church I attend has Brigadier General McComb, a Pennsylvanian who had moved to Tennessee before the war. The war mostly depended on where you lived rather than your political views.

This was just a joke before anybody gets their panties in a wad but I was unable to put a smiley face on it from my cell phone. My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather is buried at Pt. Lookout, MD, as pro Southern of a county as any. But all the food, blankets, clothing, and medical supplies brought to them never made it into the prison. Stolen. He died in March ‘65 of “dropsy,” otherwise starved to death.

Off track above, but I’ve never found but one bargain at Greentop. The rest you have to start really low on an offer and they usually refuse.

Just saw this. "Dropsy" is a term that for a couple of hundred years was used by folk medicine practitioners to denote congestive heart failure. I read a book in high school 60 years ago on common remedies that were used for centuries before modern drug manufacture caught up. It contained a chapter on Foxglove and detailed how the flower was used to treat the disease and the detailed titration that was required to keep from killing the patient. It amazed me at the time as to how really knowledgeable some of those people were. Later when I spent quite a bit of time in genealogy research I read a lot of death certificates and I was amazed at how many deaths were recorded by doctors as due to dropsy. I believe in Appalachia in the period around 1900 that any death in a rural area in which the doctor had no clue, it would be attributed to "the dropsy", the term commonly used by country people.

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Originally Posted by Ian Civco (Post 431645)

I was born and raised in Montgomery County - it is shocking how things have changed. Especially the landscape from Gaithersburg headed north. MoCo school system policies (and politics) have become nothing short of insane.

Bill Murphy - I haven’t laid my eyes on Butlers Orchard for yrs..I hope that portion of 355 hasn’t been overrun by ‘new construction’.

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Originally Posted by Scot Cardillo (Post 432359)

Scot.
Most of Maryland's counties are the same. Insane is a polite term.