Um, hello? Middle-aged attorney "from the suburbs"? It is obviously Bilmore. Speaking of Bilmore, there is a town in West Virginia where the Army Corps of Engineers once a year starts opening the dam in spurts to drain the artifical lake behind it. This causes a kind of limited festival for rafters and, yes, kayakers. The NYT article discusses the clash between the rafting/kayaking set and the locals. One quote caught my eye:
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Those who come to the Gauley to raft "just have different morals," said Matt Bark, 21, a National Guardsman from Summersville who recently returned from Iraq. "We want to listen to country music, ride our trucks and drink beer. The river rats want to listen to their heavy metal, smoke their pot, and not shave."
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http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/09/1...AUL.html?8hpib
Is Matt really describing a difference in morals? Not shaving?
