"A good word now is worth ten on a headstone."
"In New England we have nine months of winter and three months of
darned poor sledding."
To the European, a Yankee is an American.
To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is someone from New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine.
To those from Northern New England, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast.
And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast a Yankee is someone who eats pie with a knife.
To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is someone from New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine.
To those from Northern New England, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast.
And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast a Yankee is someone who eats pie with a knife.
~An old Yankee joke
Doris "Granny D" Haddock (1910 – 2010)
"Small
towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting."
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- 1924)
“New
England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet
we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.”
Mark Twain
“If you don’t like the weather in New
England now, just wait a few minutes.”
John
Collins Bossidy, Holy Cross alumni dinner, 1910
“And this
is good old Boston,
The home of
the bean and the cod,
Where the
Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the
Cabots talk only to God.”
Judson D. Hale, 1982,
editor of the “Farmer’s Almanac”
“Summer
person: ‘Nice little town, so old and quaint.
But I suppose you have a lot of oddballs, too.’
Native:
‘Oh, yes, quite a few. You see ‘em
around. But they’re mostly gone after
Labor Day.’
Daniel Webster (1782 – 1852)
“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but
up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show
that here he is the makes men.” [reference to the now gone “Old Man of the
Mountain”]
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929 – 1968)
“From the prodigious
hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring.”
Jeff Foxworthy
“If
you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England”
“If
you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction,
you live in New England”
"If
someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there,
you live in New England”
“If
you have switched from “heat” to “A/C: in the same day and back again, you live
in New England”
How fun to see the doggerel about the Powell's and Cabots! I've recently discovered Lowell ancestry in my tree; I had no idea I was in such elite company!
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