Maggie's Farm

The radical muslims want to kill you because you aren't muslim. The moderate muslims want the radical muslims to kill you because you aren't muslim.

I grew up in Lynn in the 40's and 50's. It really was a great city and the schools were excellent. Interestingly there was crime and sin but it was all/mostly committed by the Mafia and the politicians. We even elected someone to the city council while they were in jail on tax evasion charges. Just close enough to Boston to easily go their for a day if you wanted to and yet it had one of the largest wooded city parks in the U.S. if you preferred that. It had awesome beaches, a good harbor and industry was booming. Seven story shoe factories, rambling incredibly large leather manufacturing facilities, GE's jet engine plant which spawned an enormous secondary industry of small machine shops and the teachers colleges were considered the best in the nation. In the 50's when California enjoyed a boom they came to Lynn to steal away the excellent teachers for their schools and the incredibly talented machinest for their burgeoning aerospace industry. Then the shoe and leather industry moved offshore. GE remained but shrank in it's importance in the jet engine business. Even the Mafia all but disappeared leaving only the political crooks to flourish and fill the vacuum. Lynn has gone downhill and is better known for it's illegal immigrant problem then it's industries. I do go back to visit but I stay in Saugus and only go into Lynn to visit the few friends and relatives who haven't fled to New Hampshire.