Now you hold the gun on me:

In preparation for next week's Fall Fundraiser, we've been running around poking microphones in people's faces and asking them what they like about their communities. In the spirit of food-tasting, I'll go first: I'm from Potsdam, and what I like most about it is that I've been from Potsdam for 48 years. It's a pretty nice town, but then so are many places--what's important is that it is my place. I know it as well as a blind man knows his apartment. It has the comforting familiarity of a favorite sweater. In a world jaded by relentless novelty, a new face or a new place in Potsdam is a rare treat. Like a bit of gravel in your slipper, it gets immediate and undivided attention. As all communities are knit together by shared experience--the longer and broader the sharing, the more profound the connection. In the coin of Potsdam, I'm a rich man.

Tell us what you like about where you're from, and if you care to--what you like about North Country Public Radio.