I I was walking on a dirt road in Warren,VT along with my teenage children a few years ago and came upon a huge beautiful bronze plaque that identified the EXACT SPOT of the Geographic Population Center of Vermont. We read it, tried to understand the "If the population of the state were to be balanced on one point" and we all stared at it quietly. We looked around...then at each other, shook our heads and shrugged. We could not understand the significance of this spot , on a dirt road in the middle of the beautiful countryside, Nor could we imagine how much that bronze cast sign cost to make and install, or how much the grant was to hire the team to study it and come up with this information. The overwhelming uselessness of this spot compelled me to write what seems to be a nasty rant. To put it bluntly...Who the fuck cares? The wonder of having been able to calculate this exact spot is shadowed by the sheer insignificance of having LOCATED the exact spot. Sir, I appreciate your vocation, your education AND your dedication, but I just don't see the point of this particular piece of information.
peace to you,
george