I Live Where The Blair Witch Project (Could Have Been) Filmed

I live in the country in Livingston County, Michigan.  It is the fastest growing county in Michigan right now. 

I grew up here so I am a "local".  This is misleading.  Livingston County has been around since the early 1800s.  I know this, I have friends who's families are "really" local.  I got here in 1970.  (See picture.  Nice outfit, Mom, thanks so much.)

I meet people my age who didn't grow up here and they think we all drove our John Deeres and International Harvesters to school.  (NOTE: That would be Fowlerville in the early 80s.)

We live on a nice sized piece of land in what used to be the utter boonies.  It's still the utter boonies, but there are a lot more houses around now.  Dirt roads and no street lights.  Suicidal deer I am always alert for. 

I had some friends from (collectively) Farmington, Bloomfield and Cleveland come to visit.  The first comment I got (from cheeky Ms. Cleveland) was that I lived where the Blair Witch Project was filmed. 

I offered to show Miss Cheeky Cleveland and my other guests the little shack that was left from the film, but had no takers at all.  That was all right though, as the shack made great wood for the bonfire we were roasting our sacrifical goat on.  In the meantime, we all sat in the great room and smoked excessively and talked far too much, often at the same time.  This was also quite all right, though, as they are some of the greatest ladies I am privelaged to know.

It is very dark out here at night.  It's never quite still because you can hear the expressway from a couple miles away.  We do have some railroad crossings without signals.  (The assumption is that you are smart enough to see the light of an oncoming train.)

The joys of living in the country. 

Comments

[Holly]

Rich's family moved here in the 1860's and his 5x's gr-grandfather founded the paper that because the LCP. I have lived here since 1979 (aside from when I was in high school because Brighton schools are evil) and we just hate hate hate the way it's grown here. It's so snobby and phony and just like any another suburb. Blah. Hastings is sounding better all the time.

[Sain't Christopher]

Wow, never thought of rural traffic maintenance as the darwinian test that it turns out to be. Cool.