The Dead People Tour - 2016

Wait never mind. I just read your whole post

 

Not a good idea, unless you want to become one of the people (dead) we talk about on next year's tour.
The tunnel is still a very active rail way up here. It is not advised to even walk in it without permission so they can be sure there are no trains ripping through.

 

Pretty sure I've been to the Windigo camp at night. It was interesting...

 

Wikipedia:
In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo or windigo is a cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada/ Manitoba. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviours. The legend lends its name to the disputed modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, which is considered by psychiatrists to be a form of culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear of becoming a cannibal. In some Indigenous communities, environmental destruction and insatiable greed are also seen as a manifestation of Wendigo Psychosis.

 

A "lost" cemetery that we may look for:
http://www.maforests.org/savoy/savoy-c.pdf

 

Found this cemetery on the recon today:
Babbit cemetery


Look at the birth year 1740

In the United States during 1740

• The War of Austrian Succession begins in Europe. The colonists will officially join the fight in 1743.
• James Oglethorpe of the Georgia colony leads troops along with Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians to capture two forts from the Spanish in Florida. However, they will later fail to take St. Augustine.
• Fifty slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina when their planned revolt is discovered.
• Famine in Ireland sends many settlers to the Shenandoah Valley area along with other southern colonies in America.

Massachusetts 18th century history:
1763 - End of Indian Wars in 1763 allows expansion in Western Massachusetts to a total of 184 towns by 1763.
1770 - Tensions aroused from British troops' presence in Boston, culminated in 5 men dying, when troops fired at colonists at the Customs House on March 5.
1773 - Boston Tea Party dumps tea into bay - Colonists at Faneuil Hall, in Boston, oppose taxes.
1775 - The first battle of the American Revolution fought in Lexington and Concord. The first ship of the U.S. Navy, the schooner "Hannah", commissioned in Beverly.
1776 - Colonial troops force British to evacuate Boston.
1780 - State constitution adopted; John Hancock becomes first elected governor.
1785- Daniel Shay led a rebellion by farmers protesting excessive taxes, oppressive governmental systems and unfair laws and treatment of working people.
1788 - Massachusetts is sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution on Feb. 6, 1788.
1789 - The first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in Worcester.
1795 - State House built in Boston.
1796 - John Adams, born 1735 in Quincy, elected 2nd president of United States.

 

VETERAN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Babbitt, Snell
7th inst. Snell Babbitt Esq., ae 93 yrs.; a revolutionary pensioner.

Originally from Norton. Inhabitant of the Bullock Grant of 1777. Occupied Savoy in 1787 after being discharged from the army.

 

Also in the Babbit Cemetery:
John Bourn served as Sergeant in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. In 1779, he settled in Bullock's Grant (an area in northern Berkshire County that includes most of present-day Savoy and part of present-day Cheshire and Florida). In 1783, he was awarded a land grant of 200 acres in recognition of his service during the war. He was one of the earliest settlers in what became the town of Savoy.

 

Revolutionary War Vet.

 

Just came across this video.
Not going here next weekend, but thought you might like to see this.
Have heard of this road from a TW member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18BHeH1wHb8

 

Why not? I have this thing for that stiff if anyone wants to go another time...

 

Yes. I would ride shotgun with you!
There is another road up here that I want to try too.
May have to be another outing planned for more serious wheeling.

 

What year is this rig Kyle?

 

This is very cool Doc!Hope everyone has a blast!

 

Thanks.
There will be
so it is all good.

 

94 solid axle swapped from a 85 parts truck. I picked both up for a steal.

 

@Sr5_Tacoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DstiWjPTIZs

 

'94. Cool. Thought it was earlier.
My first was a '90. Loved it.

 

Yeah deffinently its not streat legal but i can tow it out there with my 08 taco. Just dont want to be alone on serious trails. And have no friends with beater trucks... which is ok i get it i would never take the taco on anything really rough.

 

Man, this sounds like a blast and would love to do this next time around! And BTW, the wife and I ate at the Old Forge and that place has the best dam wings on the planet not to mention, the owner is one of the coolest dudes around. Dam, I think I'm jeleous now and Remember that butternut squash quesadilla Being killer also. Look forward to seeing some pics from this trip. They make Johnny Mash Apple cider up there also and would be a cool drive by!!