the brief period of alcoholism must have had ill effect: i never said plattsburgh wasn't different. i objected to your elitism:
>I used to scoff at these tender-footed scholars/professionals etc. who
>didn't want to rub elbows with the provincial multitude....until I was
>repatriated (for a couple of years) to Plattsburgh, New York. Oh Boy!
>Farrah-Fawcett hairdos on all those of the female persuasion; a church/bar
>on every corner; the nearest cappuccino, sixty miles away; NO book
>store...in a college town!!! And, at that time (1987), no internet. http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0112/0429.html