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The Valley News also printed my letter in support of Tor: http://www.vnews.com/opinion/18607311-95/forum-help-lebanon-save-energy-lebanon-can-vote-for-freedom-a
by kauffj 11y ago
The Valley News also printed my letter in support of Tor: http://www.vnews.com/opinion/18607311-95/forum-help-lebanon-save-energy-lebanon-can-vote-for-freedom-america-and-the-refugees http://www.vnews.com/opinion/18607311-95/forum-help-lebanon-... (2nd letter) Hopefully it helped.
I've only lived in NH for a bit and it is crazy how different the attitudes are here. I've never been any other place where people care as much about individual liberty.
If you support this idea, you can donate to the Library Freedom Project here: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/donate/ https://libraryfreedomproject.org/donate/
- stephencanon 11y agoOne might also donate to the Lebanon public libraries foundation: https://www.leblibrary.com/giving https://www.leblibrary.com/giving
- DavidSJ 11y agoThanks, I sent them $50.
- mjfl 11y agoLive free or die!
- thenipper 11y ago> I've only lived in NH for a bit and it is crazy how different the attitudes are here. I've never been any other place where people care as much about individual liberty. Speaking as a native(who now lives in Boston) who grew up just south of Lebanon I find this attitude interesting. Growing up there wasn't much talk about 'individual liberties'. It was much more along the lines of it ain't my business about what my neighbor does. It just seems to be an interesting shift. Though I'm proud that Lebanon has decided to go this way. It's important and I hope that other libraries follow their example.
- radd9er 11y agoI also grew up in the area and am always suprised when I hear people describe th climate in NH as the parent commenter. People do kinda keep to themselves, especially the ones who go back many generations. But the libertarian types seem to me to come from other places, attracted to NH because of the motto and the reputation, which Im not sure it really deserves. Its a pretty typical rural northeast place culturally, very close to VT or upstate NY (places I have also lived).
- digitalsushi 11y ago(Claremonter;) I had felt that our libertarian influence is equalized by the constant Massachusetts immigration.
- thenipper 11y agoOr Connecticut. I grew up in Acworth and I remember one of the roads in Charlestown on my way down to school was called "Connecticut Heights". Always made me chuckle.
- drhodes 11y agoPeople are also moving to NH for the free state project[1]. https://freestateproject.org/ https://freestateproject.org/
- douche 11y agoWhen I went to college over that way, it wasn't a huge shift from the part of western Maine that I came from, either. At least the locals, anyway - there was quite a bit of culture shock dealing with my fellow classmates, who certainly were cut from a different cloth. Hanover has some of that "get up in everybody else's business" vibe, but outside of that bubble, it's a lovely area.
- DavidSJ 11y agoThanks for writing that letter.
- latj 11y agoSomeone else mentioned this in a comment but I remember reading years ago that libertarians were trying to organize a movement to New Hampshire where they could become the majority. Is this a thin that is known to people who live in NH? Does it ever come up?
- sp332 11y agoThe project never materialized as planned, but Keene ended up with a concentration of them leading to some interesting stories. http://www.wmur.com/news/states-highest-court-to-weigh-in-on-keene-robin-hooders/33477436 http://www.wmur.com/news/states-highest-court-to-weigh-in-on... https://phillipbantz.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/armed-topless-teen-free-stater-arrested-in-keene/ https://phillipbantz.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/armed-topless-... <- charges were later dropped