LEE PITTS HERE AND THERE.

LEE PITTS

IT'S THE PITTS

HERE AND THERE

Lee Pitts has said he has been in every state but feels more at home on the left side of the

Mississippi . He has floated on the River Rogue of Oregon , rode a horse on the

Borderlands , can pronounce the capital of South Dakota correctly, been to Cabelas store in

Nebraska, seen a rodeo in the Astrodome and the first World Series game ever in Kansas

City. Was in Aberdeen and froze his but off, saw a rodeo in Prescott and a parade in Cayucos.

He has never been to a Pyramid in Egypt but has been to the one in Las Vegas. He as haggled

with the Indian at Four Corners, been to the top of the Space Needle, fled bears in Yellowstone,

unknowingly, He has seen the beauty of the Grand Canyon and Disneyland. All of these are

in the West but that does not mean he does not appreciate the East.

He spent a whole week on the beautiful beach at Rehoboth, been to Florida and visited his

brother at West Point on the Hudson. It appears to him that there is more civilization in the

East, more tall buildings and toll roads.

East has more history he feels, Arlington, Gettysburg, in relation to the Wests' Little

Bighorn. There is probably more to do in the Eaat. The west has more of natures handiwork, Carlsbad, The Bad Lands, Black Hills, Mt Whitney, Lake Tahoe, Oregon's seacoast and Big Empty, which is what he calls Montana, aka Gods Back Yard. The East is history, DC

Monuments, architecture and what. West is the oil patch, cowboys, and is outside, the East

is inside and brick. West is adobe.

He's been to the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, and Cooperstown as he has the bard wire

museum in Emporia Kansas and the George O'Keefe's home in New Mexico, oh, yes, the

Cowboy Hall of Fame. He was more impressed with Mark Twain's dusty office in

Virginia City Nevada than his eastern mansion.

He feels a divide between the North and South more when visiting out East, thinks the West

is less dense and it's people friendlier. We, of the West, resent Congressmen and New York

snobs who try to rid the West of it's cows, which they say, are destroying the world of

loggers, miners and cowboys with their flatulence.

Abstract: February 19, 2019, Delmarva Farmer Magazine of Easton Maryland.