Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] WJOE 700

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Renfrew wrote:
> Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
>
> 1820 EST    WJOE    MA    Athol    noted with ads for Kittering Trading 
> Post and NH Public TV
>
> I always wondered what the locals think of the town's name.

The folksinger John Forster had a great tune called "Entering Marion," 
the premise of which has him traipsing all over Massachusetts to visit 
lovely Marion, then Beverly, then Sharon...and then things take a turn, 
as he crosses over to Lawrence and Norton and Quincy, before culminating 
with...

"Around midnight I pulled into Athol
And flopped in a fleabag motel."

The full set of lyrics is here: http://www.johnforster.com/ENT_MAR.html 
- and the song itself is well worth seeking out.

True to the name, the real-life Athol is indeed a rather dumpy, very 
economically depressed community...not at all the picture-postcard 
Massachusetts imagined by those outside the state...

s

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