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Time Marches On…

Posted on January 12, 2011

First, meet the community of Pine Plains, NY, as it turns out for the Memorial Day parade in 2000.

 

What do we call the people from Pine Plains? Pine Plainers? Stissingers? The school sports teams refer to themselves as Bombers. It looks as if we should just stick with “People from Pine Plains”. But not all the people. I didn’t see any of the weekenders. Or the newcomers, the City People. And that may be the problem. It is one reason why I am making this website. So this parade is both an introduction to the community and Pine Plains Views. Why Pine Plains, anyway? Is it so special or typical that it deserves a website? We’ll be exploring that, but simply put, Pine Plains is where I live and from where I view the world. So Welcome to Pine Plains Views!

Then, 10 years and a world later…

The year, 2011, the same town, the same people (give or take a few) but now a different world.  Memorial Day after 9/11  has a new meaning.

1 thought on “Time Marches On…”

  1. Barbara Keeler Noriega says:
    August 12, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    Thank you so much for this video! My Father, George Keeler, has been an integral part of the Memorial Day experience in Pine Plains for as long as I can remember. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces in the crowd, faces from a childhood spent in a great town. I have lived outside of Pine Plains almost as long as I lived there, but it will always be “home” to me. I have two sons now, and every time we visit, I get to show them where I came from. Thank you for giving me a new thing to share with them, from a computer in California!

    Thanks again,
    Barbara Noriega
    San Diego, CA

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WHY THIS WEBSITE

I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Stan Hirson

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