OUR KIND OF TOWN

Squirrel: It’s what’s for dinner in Romney, W.Va.

(Thanks to Matt Filar)

Comments

[Omniskeptic]

"... where vegetable farmers turn in their hoes for hunting gear ..."

I didn't' know you could do that! Where do I sign up?

[Jeff Meyerson]

I can't believe Mitt didn't campaign there.

Tangy Rabbit Nachos WBAGNFARB

[Steve]

It strikes me that virtually any trap looking vaguely like a bird feeder would catch an unlimited number of squirrels.
Dibs on the idea.

[LarryLandPress]

...and the so-called United Nations does nothing.

Anyone have any remote idea as to how many squirrels they'd have to kill to supply a....festival? Unless top-secret West Virginia scientists have turned out an all-new, 800-pound tree squirrel...which creates quite an interesting mental image, especially as they blunder, I mean sail through the trees...

[Not My Usual Alias]

I'm really glad that when we dressed up as squirrels for a book reading by His Deveness that we were in Illinois. Being cooked and put in a gravy would have put a damper on the event.

[WVplantman]

Romney, WV is one of any number of locations in WV that you can't actually get to (or leave, so you might as well sleep with your cousin) without a local guide. As with those other locations, it's probably only 20 miles "as the crow flies" from a major highway but the driving distance is more like 200 miles. Be sure that you pay that guide only after he/she has returned you to the outside world, especially if you are dressed like a squirrel.

[O the Umanity]

I noticed that the Snarks are alive and whining, in the comments following that story. Merely observin' here ...

[oneblankspace]

I spent one night in Romney at the Koolwink Motel on US 50. That was in June 2000.