Georgetown.

It’s been a while since my last blog. I kind of wanted to wait to write about Georgetown but not this long. I’ll start out by telling about my finding Georgetown and my first day there. I was up North visiting my brother Dan and we drove down to check out the area Georgetown is located in. Very nice scenic area of the state. I remember having a tough time asking the locals where it was located, due to no one seemed to know for sure. I guess I should have looked into the address prior to driving down there but who would have figured it would be a bit hard to locate. Got the right road from some local guy who was a Pastor or Minister something like that and took his word for it.. "I think it's over on the road that goes over to the Deyruter". So driving down route 16 keeping an eye out for a prison and taking my time, and I drive right by the place. I actually thought it was a Boy Scout Camp. Picnic tables out front. Log Cabin visible from the road. These days it looks a bit different they have added a nice large sign out front, and they moved the Totem pole out in front of the Cabin, and across the road is the "Con" shop. There was no fence or anything that would indicate in 1987 that it was in fact a prison. IN those days in the summer months people would pull in driving there RV’s and ask for a spot to Camp. So this is a bit of a shock to me.. Quite a bit different from Mid-Sate and Green Haven. But it fit quite nicely into my backwoods upbringing in Redfield. My first paid job on the books was cutting ski trails up near Orwell, NY and who would have figured that years later I would find myself doing the same thing with a Crew of Inmates. The big difference was the pay was probably 10 times more and later even ore than that!! I took a test in High School that once done would tell you what a good career might be for you. It didn’t say Prison Guard! But it did say Forrest Ranger.. This Georgetown place wasn’t to far off. Woods every where and dirt roads going all over the place. So I reported the first day and Officer DB (real funny guy) sees me coming in the front door dressed in my class “A”’s and he comes out to meet me and immediately tells me to put my “Bus driver” hat back in my car, you won’t need it here..