My old friend John Baster really laid it on the line about Picton’s Main.

Reading the Hallowell Times of a 100 years ago the Edition in an Editorial was deploring the tie ups in traffic of horse drawn vehicles each weekend and at lunch times, suggesting hitching posts in all the back streets of Picton and the hiring of three additional street sweepers for Saturdays and Sunday mornings.

I imagine you would know the nature of the material these artizans swept up from the gravel streets of the day.

The Edition welcomed the advent of winter when horse and wheel traffic switched to hauling across frozen Picton Bay and alleviating the Bridge Street bottle neck.

Seems to me whatever the period in history, whatever the mode of transportation, people take Picton for what it is and congregate there regardless of period or transport.

John between me and you we’ve put up with Picton for pretty nigh on 200 years.

Its an impossible place to negotiate but hell John we are stuck with it.

Nobody wants to park a car further than ten feet from their destination on account of lugging packages. If you figures payments, depreciation, interest, repairs to car, insurance, gas etc., etc. probably every visit to our Town costs a ten dollar bill, but we are stuck with the automobile age.

When we finally run out of fossil fuels and switch back to horse drawn traffic the biggest problem of all will be HORSE—-, however we’ve got paved roads anymore which aids sweepin, but wo’t about the flies, now that they’ve banned DDT.