In a message dated 8/10/03 8:13:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I know; I live in St. Augustine, FL. Sometimes I think my city goes > overboard > in favoring tourism, but it is short-sighted to dismiss it completely, > especially when the county is broke. > Tourists demand very little in the way of tax money (schools, hospitals, etc) but spend a lot for a few days or weeks or "renting" our space. Oswego County should understand that especially with the lovely lake attracting people for reasons other than genealogy. The commissioner simply doesn't understand how large a hobby genealogy is and that the growing "gray" population is willing to travel to visit the old homes and gravesites. Shirley Maynard