Another post about Spindle Point
Another thing I remember about the Point was our fire reporting system. There were members of the s.p. c. a. Spindlle Point civic assoc. that were concerned the response time of the Meredith fire dept. would not help us. They were four miles away, country road, etc, all valanteers, limited equipment, not ready for a forest fire that was a possibility. I always thought that we could escape by boat if need be but I was just a kid. What did I know. Anyway we established this system of air horns on trees in every other driveway or so and thought that would save us. Little did we know what the winters would do to the air horns. In those days there was only a phone at every fourth house or so and it was a party line, if someone was even home, thank goodness we never needed to use it.
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