{"id":1462,"date":"2011-09-01T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2011-09-01T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:10:46","slug":"listening-post-are-we-there-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/09\/01\/listening-post-are-we-there-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: Are we there yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Land of Make Believe in its heyday.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week’s post about my little Adirondack road trip and the age of motor-touring brought a reminiscence in reply, about visiting the Land of Make Believe in Upper Jay–one of America’s earliest theme parks, and the imaginative masterpiece of the great Arto Monaco.<\/p>\n

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Queen Irene says "Off with his head!"<\/p><\/div>\n

So it was sad to receive the news that Monaco’s landmark was wiped out by flooding following Irene. Brian Mann hiked in to the site and posted this pathetic photo in The In Box<\/em>, the remains of one of the Red Queen’s playing-card soldiers from Alice in Wonderland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m grateful that I had the chance to be enchanted by The Land of Make Believe as a child, along with many other great roadside destinations in the region: Enchanted Forest, Gaslight Village, Storytown, Santa’s Workshop, Frontier Town, Upper Canada Village, and “1000 Animals” to name a few. I’ve been thinking over the past week of all these places–some gone, some still delighting the road-weary–and find I’m not the only one. Everyone I’ve talked to in the station has their own and different collection, and I’m sure you do, too.<\/p>\n

As the Adirondacks and Vermont struggle to reopen roads in time for that other great and ongoing example of motor-touring–the leaf-peeping season–it seems like a good time to try a little documentary crowd-sourcing project.\u00a0 Did you eat at the Dilly Wagon in Potsdam? Do you have a photo of the family car outside the castle at the top of the Whiteface Highway? Did you strap skates over your saddle shoes at DeKalb Skateland? Where did you first play miniature golf? Get a window tray from a wheeled waitress? See a movie from your car?<\/p>\n

Get out the old family album and send us pictures, places, and stories of your life running up and down the roads of the North Country. Places gone, places present, and new candidates for the pantheon of great American roadside attractions. Over the next few weeks, I’ll compile everything I get into pages and maps. You can start the process here with a comment below. Email photos and captions to dale@ncpr.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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