From my friend Heather's and my ramblings around upstate this Labor Day, an unusually polite 'no trespassing' sign. Jesse said it called to mind a quote about York Staters superior manners I'd issued last year.
Seen on a covered bridge just off Route 20. Maybe Oneida County, maybe Otsego...does anyone know?
Posted by Natalie
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I find this picture to be downright hilarious. It's so reserved and non-offensive. Granted, not everyone (by far) is this nice up here and we probably haven't earned the same reputation for "niceness" that the Midwest has... but it certainly is an expression of a society that puts something of a premium on manners and trying to avoid offense.
YES
Covered bridges!? Hot Damn, I didn't even know they're still around! Sweet!
I was driving today on Rt. 104 towards Oswego and saw this house with its property line all taped off with home made stuff, not like a police scene, and I just thought of how pitiful our culture can be sometimes in regards to property rights. It seemed like the folks were trying to keep their neighbors away or something, given I don't know the whole story and was just passing through, but I can honestly say sometimes folks take their property way to seriously.
On another similar note...
There is an abandoned ghost town behind my house and sometimes I like to ride my bike down the old road, but not anymore because the folks who "own" the ghost town are really protective about folks riding bikes. In a way I can understand, but at the same time it is such a nice place to ride bikes!
Perhaps, in the future I'll write about this ghost town in Upstate, NY for Yorkstaters.
Yes, this sign is from a covered bridge on Doe Road in Bridgewater, Madison County. The road leads to some very nice log homes back there.... go past that sign AT YOUR OWN RISK. LOL.
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