Mud Season Advice | Knowledge & Wisdom
Read on to gain invaluable insight from a survivor of New England’s infamous mud seasons.
By Yankee Magazine|Feb 22 2016|
Credit: 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.
Originally published as “Advice from a Mud Season Survivor” by Kerry James O’Connor in the March 1985 issue of Yankee.
