Originally posted by Gerard on the Dark Shadows: General Discussion Forum on February 13, 2002 at 14:44:02:
It's now November along the rocky, windswept coast of Maine. Granted, there might be an Indian Summer day or two left, but it's pretty much already wintery. Yet, we still see the denizens of Collinwood and even Collinsport go outside with only the leanest of coats, if any at all. And during the summer, there were those times when they were bundled up against an Arctic blast.
It reminds me of a woman who once prowled the streets of my home town. She was known as "Crazy Annie". She would use only public telephones because she believed that the government was bugging her, and once donated her Bible to the public library because she was convinced that space aliens, in cooperation with the government, were using it to spy on her. But the one thing Crazy Annie always did was to wear layer upon layer of winter clothing during the hottest days of summer, and in winter, when temps would drop even below 0, she would walk around town as if she lived on Fiji, loud blouses with palm trees, shorts and straw hats with plastic daisies stuck in the rim. Don't forget the sunglasses.
I'm waiting to see somebody like Liz or Mrs. Johnson start walking around the hallowed grounds of Collinwood dressed like that, now that the cold winds of the north are blowing.
Gerard