Macks Apples

There's a long tradition of penalizing people who don't respect (4.00 / 1)

the color barrier.  After all, that was how segregation was maintained.  The census workers ending up in the Mississippi levee were just a culmination of strategies that weren't working as well as they used to.  

When the spouse took the census in New Orleans slums in 1960, the people who didn't want the people living in sub-standard conditions counted had him arrested for "impersonating a census taker" on a regular basis.  Usually on a Friday, so he could spend the weekend in jail until his supervisor at the Census could spring him on Monday.  While he was really motivated because he was doing follow-up in areas where other census takers had given up, he left the South not long after, as a place where he couldn't live.  
In fact, he went AWOL from the National Guard because he refused to lead a unit that was getting ready to do crowd control and couldn't wait to do some shooting.  About five years later, when we were already in NH, they sent him a general discharge.  

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by: hannah @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 14:01:25 PM CDT

An Apple A Day (0.00 / 0)

I thought an apple a day kept the doctor away.  You'd expect that since the Republicans are fighting health insurance reform, support for Macks Apples would be their substitute health care plan.  

They could plan to supply all 40,000,000 Americans who don't have health care with one apple a day.  That's 365 apples a year.  The cost for a 20 cent apple would be about $73.00 yearly for health care.  Then we could all not worry and be happy.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 14:37:34 PM CDT

Way to go GOPERS! (0.00 / 0)

The party that claims to be the champion of small business does its best to trash one.

This is not even worthy of a junior high school bully.

Infantile tantrums abound.

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by: GreyMike @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 14:45:04 PM CDT

Well, it does goes both ways. (4.00 / 1)

For example, a couple members of a local business' namesake family voted against all of the marriage equality bills in the NH legislature.  This did not please me, to say the least.

I think it's important to support local businesses over big box stores whenever possible, so I shop at this business anyway.

Of course, they post all of their political signs up the road on their private land, as opposed to out in front of the business.  If they started posting signs at the business, I'd probably be having some second thoughts about shopping there.  

I wouldn't be picketing or organizing a boycott.  But I'm not gonna park next to a 6' by 10' Sununu billboard either.

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by: Karen @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 15:10:10 PM CDT

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In the NHPR story it wasn't so much about (4.00 / 2)

a boycott, formal or informal. Instead, locals were asking the Londonderry selectmen to make him take down the signs he had put up on his own property.

This would be because, they are unAmerican thugs who want to sic the police on people whose speech they dislike.

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by: elwood @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 18:08:41 PM CDT

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Great Place!!! (4.00 / 1)

If memory serves me, Mack's hosted Dick Swett's Senate campaign announcement in 1996.  Wonderful atmosphere, and damn fine apples.

Buy from Mack's.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 15:27:16 PM CDT

agreed (4.00 / 1)

These are the best apples anywhere in the state, and now we have yet another reason to make the trip to Londonderry!

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by: Timmy J @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 18:01:08 PM CDT

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Time to make a cider run! (4.00 / 2)

I just bought some apples and pears from Mack's the other day' looks like it's time to go back. Besides, the potassium is good for you!

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. -Harry Truman

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by: Peter Sullivan @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 17:37:27 PM CDT

man, that's petty (4.00 / 2)

There's a bakery in Conway where the guy always puts out all the Republican signs....but....if Democrats give him signs, he puts them up too. Good for business, and community relations.  

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by: susanthe @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 18:06:06 PM CDT

That's what our town store does. (0.00 / 0)

They put up signs for any candidate that brings them, but no earlier than two weeks before the election.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 07:08:41 AM CDT

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Allyson's Orchard (4.00 / 3)

Over this way in Walpole is a strong supporter of Democratic causes.  

Hope > Fear




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by: Mike Hoefer @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 20:11:20 PM CDT

Yes! (4.00 / 1)

Great place!  Thanks for mentioning it.

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by: Hope Not Fear @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 20:58:40 PM CDT

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Awesome! (4.00 / 1)

Went there last year, and didn't know that.

Love Walpole.

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 04:40:55 AM CDT

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Alyson's, or Macks? (4.00 / 3)

But I am done with apple picking now...

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by: elwood @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 05:26:06 AM CDT

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saw a picture of it (0.00 / 0)

when one of my sons friend's posted a facebook picture of the three of them...it was the day Obama spoke there...three kids, a sign for apples...THEY SKIPPED SCHOOL

We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop guild.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 06:48:47 AM CDT

well done, Ray (0.00 / 0)

I heard this over the weekend and thought it was terrific, but it didn't occur to me to post it. Good catch, good idea.  

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by: measurestaken @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 09:26:47 AM CDT

I was already planning on going this weekend (0.00 / 0)

I've been craving good cider like you wouldn't believe!

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by: Evan Carlson @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 11:43:14 AM CDT

I was dissatisfied with last weekend's apple picking. (0.00 / 0)

It was at an orchard I had never previously been to along the I-95 corridor. It shall remain nameless.

Half of Boston was there, and there were 20-minute-plus lines for any and every activity that the orchard offered (face painting for my daughter, purchasing cider and/or donuts, purchasing produce, etc.)

There was even a line to ride on the tractor-pulled wagon that TOOK YOU to the PYO section of the orchard (and orchard rules stated that you MUST ride the wagon; walking was not an option).

All-in-all, not the sort of experience I look for when going to pick apples. If I don't check out Mack's this weekend, I'll definitely be going to one of my family's standbys (either Butternut Farm in Farmington or DeMeritt Hill Farm in Lee).

Regards,
Corporate Dog

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by: Corporate Dog @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 13:00:26 PM CDT

Utoh.... (0.00 / 0)

The apple pie is really good!

Have you written a letter to the editor today? Have you donated today? Have you put up signs? Have you made calls? Have you talked to your neighbors?

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by: Ray Buckley @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 13:38:55 PM CDT

And for the PYO basics (0.00 / 0)

don't miss McLeod's in Hancock, off Rt. 202. They've been there forever, and a multi-generational family tradition for us. Just apples plain and simple, no fanfare, no rides, no pies (but beautiful autumn views), just pick 'em and git. Non-partisan, AFAIK.  

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by: GreyMike @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 16:41:35 PM CDT

Speakna political apples (4.00 / 1)

Remember way back, when H. Rap Brown was on Merv Griffin (of all places) and defended the more militant Panthers by saying "Violence is as American as cherry pie!"

Most pundits started scolding him for apparently endorsing violence.

I was going, "CHERRY pie?!?"

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by: elwood @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 18:06:17 PM CDT

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from that Cherry Tree that Goerge cut down n/t (4.00 / 1)

We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop guild.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 06:23:17 AM CDT

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h/t jhutson (4.00 / 3)

From back in the day:

(Should have promoted this earlier...nice attempt by an Obama supporter to break down how Obama's body language gives weight and dignity to his stump speech. Perhaps a little adulatory, but analytical as well, and worth the read. - promoted by Mike Caulfield)

PS. This is not Adm. Hutson, btw.

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 19:56:15 PM CDT