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Life in a Northern town. It turns out that our Nate Silver is the town clerk. Because she knows all the voters in town, she can pretty much tell who they are going to vote for when they come in. So she knows how it stands at any given time. I have pushed early voting with my people, so I am probably a bit ahead at this point, but that could all change if I don't get my voting-day voters out. Town Meeting actually starts at noon on Friday, with voting from noon to 8 pm, then the gathering at the elementary school at 10 am on Saturday. The Warrant is what we vote on at Town Meeting.
I never realized before campaigning on Main Street and Depot Street how downtown Unity is perched on the edge of a ravine.
Sandy Stream must have been a roaring river at times in the past to have made such a huge channel. The ravine is a wild place right in the middle of town. One of my visits was to a little cottage full of art and music and sitting just a few feet from the edge. The view from the back of her house is that of pure wilderness.
I met two other artists, Bill who has a recording studio in his apartment, and Jim who does stained glass and built his own wonderfully designed house. I have made a lot of new acquaintances.
I have seen the inside of a lot of houses. I have stepped inside the door and had conversations. I have seen people in their nests. My own house is a comfortable nest, so I know how these folks feel about home.
There are several subsets of Unity voters but the main division right now is between those who live on state-maintained roads and those who live on Waning Road or Town Farm Road. Those two roads are in terrible shape and the people who live on them are really angry. They don't care about a new town office; they want their roads fixed. Another subset is people who live on the lake. They think that the "fair market value" assessment of their property value is unrealistic, that their property would never sell for that much.
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