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The "sleepy" little town of Hot Springs, North Carolina celebrated an "old holiday" with a new twist. Instead of loitering around the post office complaining about politics and how Uncle Sam can "kiss their ass," the townspeople of the infamous "AT trail town" rallied for a different, and rather unique, occasion. The town's old red caboose "welcome center" was physically picked up and moved to make room for a bigger "Welcome Center" with restrooms. Regardless of their occupations, locals, transplants and through-hikers alike stopped whatever they were doing to line the streets and intently watch the relocation of the caboose.
"That thing's been here forever. Why do they gotta move it?" complained one transplant.
KG, local hardware store owner and town native had other thoughts on the matter: "That caboose has been there since about 1988," he commented.
Whatever the "moving in date" was of the red caboose, all residents are certain of its moving out date. It was TAX DAY, 2009.
The caboose was relocated to the grounds of the Hot Springs Spa and Resort.
Town associate Dana Nagle laments, "It won't be quite so easy to stand on top of the thing when it's down there (the spa)." Nagle is concerned that the owners of the resort might be a bit "conservative" with granting access to the caboose, as they were with the town's most prolific stinging nettles patch. The patch, which is located at the spot locals call "The Sand Bar," used to have public access, but about 5 years ago the owners decided to keep everyone out. A locked gate and No Tresspassing signs warn off would-be bass fisherman and herb foragers.
"If we let one person in, we would have to let everyone in," Nagle was told when she asked permission to enter and harvest nettles.
Did the caboose moving operation take all day? Fortunately, Hot Springs residents were able to return to work with the excitement behind them by about 11:00 am.
Eat your heart out, Uncle Sam!
6 comments:
I just read this delightful post outloud to CF and LJ. We especially liked all of the "quotation marks" and were horrified to hear of the stinginess of the "resort" ... glad to hear people have been able to return to their normal hotsprings activities up there now that the caboose moving is complete.
Let's talk on the phone tomorrow to reschedule our "private" nettles patch raiding.
I hated to read that the caboose was moved! How will I know I'm in Hot Springs the next time I visit?
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