"Mimi" wrote in message
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> "Rog'" wrote in message
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>> "Bill in Schenectady" wrote:
>>>>>Speaking of which, why do so many American resorts try to look
>>>>>like something in Switzerland, Austria, Germany or some other
>>>>>European spot? Why not just be unique themselves.
>>> Yes the ski resorts in particular try to do that... They don't REALLY
>>> look like anything in Europe. They merely pretend to.
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>> One the more bizarre attempts is Helen, Georgia, in North Georgia.
>> Originally an old run-down mill town, it recast itself as an Bavarian
>> alpine villiage complete with street names like Eidelweiss Strasse,
>> an Octoberfest, and art-craft shops. Its saving grace is the nearby
>> Apalachian Trail and class IV+ rafting on the Chattooga River.=R=
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> Hmm, Helen sounds like Leavenworth, Washington. Except the latter is not
> an old mill town, and it is up in the mountains (the snowy Cascades), with
> good climbing nearby as well as the Wenatchee River for rafting.
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> Marianne
Didn't Groucho Marx say something about a sentence of ten years in
Leavenworth or eleven years on Twelveworth?
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