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To: Poet who wrote (4398)	4/3/2001 1:51:23 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 6089

I know Bowdoin fairly well. Considered it as one of my options, about a decade before you went there. It was well known as one of the better small liberal arts colleges. Brunswick is (should say was, haven't been there in 20 years, is it still?) a really nice town. I didn't know it all that well, but I've probably been there a dozen times, often crusing up the coast after stopping off at LL Bean when they were worth stopping off at. They went yuppie in the 80s, unfortunately, and now you can't even get Old Time Woodman's Fly Dope there any more. I think I mentioned before that my grandmother had a farm in Maine, just outside South China, and I used to spend vacations there. Wonderful state. The lake, all 7 miles long of it, used to freeze solid in the winter. They would build summer cottages in the village and skid them to their places along the shore on the ice. You would see a cottage nestled at the foot of a steep bank and wonder how the heck they got that thing there. Over the ice was the answer! I learned to drive on ice by driving out onto the lake and practicing on the oval ice course they laid out for racing. No, I never raced on. I'm not THAT dumb. But the racing was a riot to watch, and the course was a great place to practice driving on ice since you couldn't possibly hit anything (except anybody else out practicing!)