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Weekend in and around Margaretville, Upstate New York

As mentioned before I went to visit a very good friend of mine in Margaretville this weekend. Margaretville is about 3,5 hours drive northwest from New York situated in Delaware County, Upstate New York.
Well, what can I say... I had a very relaxing and inspiring weekend together with my friend Thomas. He organized a small Motel next to the town, we were hanging out on meadows, sitting next to a small river, had lunch in the garden of his great grand uncles farm (I am actually not sure about the precise relationships between him and his relatives since it's a rather complex story - more on that tomorrow) and we were driving around in a rather busted Ford Pickup Truck from the 90ties. We were talking a lot, about god and the world and I was enoying the quietness, the fresh air and the nature up there so much. It was a good idea to leave New York City for the weekend to calm down a bit and open up my mind again. Well, it was just a little short. And I got to meet Berna, Lauren and some other relatives of Thomas. They have warm-hearted welcomed me with open arms.

It was also quite interesting to see such a somehow typical American small town with only 600 inhabitants. All those wooden houses with their front porches, a lot of them had the flag flying in front, the old trucks on the roads, the people behaving in a complete different way than in New York. Everyone is friendly all the time, everyone is an active part of the community, everyone goes to church on Sunday and everyone looks after each other. I guess this would be too much friendliness and small town life for me with the time. I am a city dweller so I am not used to that.

I didn't focus on photography that much since coming somewhere for only two days is too short to get some meaningful images of American small town life. But I still shot a lot. I just started to shoot out of the window of our driving car, trying to captere some scenes of Margaretville and it's surrounding. I should have recorded the sound of the truck to make some sort of multimedia film out of it but anyway, I can still go back and make up for it later.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on July 11, 2005 09:53 PM