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Photo/Art by Mark Brewer You need a sense of humor when spring thaw meets dirt roads. Take our advice and you just might survive mud season! Keep moving: As long as you keep moving, you’re alive. Mud season is God’s way of letting New Englanders know they haven’t gotten to heaven yet. Feign indifference: If […]
By Yankee Magazine|Feb 22 2016|
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Photo/Art by Mark Brewer
You need a sense of humor when spring thaw meets dirt roads. Take our advice and you just might survive mud season!
- Keep moving: As long as you keep moving, you’re alive.
- Mud season is God’s way of letting New Englanders know they haven’t gotten to heaven yet.
- Feign indifference: If the mud senses you’re afraid, you’re doomed.
- If you have to travel alone, take along a mature beaver or a large dog that you can send off for help in an emergency.
- Don’t take any dirt roads you’ve never been down before … The people who take them are never seen again.
- Tie a bright-orange cloth around the top of your car antenna. People can use it to spot you and rescue you in the event you sink completely out of sight.
“Advice from a Mud Season Survivor,” by Kerry James O’Connor, March 1985
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