On Apr 12, 2005 8:57 AM, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, welcome back. So glad you got to see your family .... > > Boy, do I remember Mahone Bay.
Mahone Bay has changed a fair bit, even in the 22 years since my folks moved down there. It's more "touristy", but at least they have bylaws that force new buildings to "look" like older architecture. Lots of craft shops and art galleries that weren't there before, but I guess it's a good thing. If outsiders want to come to look at the beauty, someone should profit from it. Apart from the no-seeums, I loved that > summer i spent on Nova Scotia. I wonder just how much it's changed - it's > been a long time since i was there. Memories of Blue Rocks anT tanner's > Cove Blue Rocks, which was completely unspoiled until about 3 years ago, now has a gift shop and "general store" for the touristos (before there were ~no~ stores - one had to go into Lunenberg). I guess if enough tourists go there to see all the quaint fishing shacks perched atop rocks overlooking the ocean, someone who lives there was bound to try to make some money from the gawkers (not that you were a gawker - or if you were, I was many a time as well <g>). and the truly wonderful and hospitable people I met there, are dancing > thru my head. Yeah, Nova Scotians are a very hospitable and warm people, at least in my experience. They are very suspicious of outsiders (known as CFA's: Come From Aways) who want to move into their neck of the woods. Even my parents, who were born and raised in Halifax, were looked upon with some suspicions when they first moved there, but after a couple of years, when it was obvious that they were there to stay, they were "admitted to the club". As far as tourists, though, they are universally loved - I think it's the biggest industry there these days (not that I'm being cynical, they're warm because they're nice people, not to make money). > > Anyway, the list has been very quiet without you. You contribute a lot of > posts here (message count is down 67%, messages about beer are down 92% > <LOL>) The 200 odd threads (not posts, but ~threads~) that I saw last night tells me otherwise <g>. Someone was posting in my absence! <LOL> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
