This is one of those "I just can't figure this out" questions. When I first moved back here I remember thinking how wonderful the folk community was around here; it stretched from northern New York to way Down East, and people traveled the distance for dances and concerts. (2 examples- Dancing with a guy from mid-Maine at a contra dance in Franconia, and seeing a poster for a concert by Gordon Bok in Enfield NH, which, unfortunately, occurred before I got there. Actually the Champleain Valley Festival, at least the early ones were another great example.) I also remember a friend from Maine, who'd lived in all three states commenting about the state in the middle as being "different, mean-spirited". Then I think about the fact that only in New Hampshire have I had people on the main street of the town, stop and wave me in from a side street when the traffic was being too heavy for me to enter easily...

So, could it be that there is really more of a problem just in the coastal area, or just in the people who are organising right now, and maybe some communication there might break up this logjam?

Cami Su fromVermontwithfamilyin4NewEnglandstatesbutmostlyMaine