>>Where in Cartersville? I live right across the street from the Philadelphia (it's a Shaw plant) carpet mill on US 41. I moved here in 1981.
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>Oops -- it's been so long that I've no idea. I was a bit of a vagabond in those days, too, so I moved around a lot. I remember a short stay in a cedar-sided house on Bell's Ferry road, on the corner of a street that went back to a park on the lake. That doesn't give you much to go on, does it? <g>
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Lake Allatoona (or as I refer to it "Lake Alla Tuna Fish"< g >)? Sounds more like Acworth than Cartersville, though.
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>>AFAIK, to live in Kennesaw, you must still need to own a gun. This means that people drive very, very fast through it.:-)
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>I believe, though, that Kennesaw fell to the lowest crime rate in the nation as a result -- or am I mistaken?

I've heard something like that too, but can't confirm it. Of course, it's hard to hit moving targets.< vbg >