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Current Talk '07 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0432
« on: March 01, 2008, 06:09:15 PM »
I suppose Collinsport, Maine may have been the frontier for some people. People probably could get there in not too long a time if they really wanted to, a few days, but it was also out of the way, not a place people passed through on their way elsewhere. Backwaters are isolated and their inhabitants can have their own special mindset, often from the past. If the legal system there was at all flexible according to community standards, a trial might almost have been possible. If not, an unofficial lynching or some mob-justice sort of "trial" might have been.
Wasn't there a sort of cliche (maybe in the 60s) about there being some New Englanders in backwater towns that were somehow stuck in the past?
Wasn't there a sort of cliche (maybe in the 60s) about there being some New Englanders in backwater towns that were somehow stuck in the past?