We are the second highest maple product producing state and the second highest apple product producing state. We grow large quantities of peas and soybeans. We have a booming dairy industry from farm into the cheese, yogurt and milk production and packaging plants. We have our own wine regions and export grapes to the juice bottling plants in just into PA. We have several plants that produce surgical injectable pharmaceuticals. We have mountain climbing, white water rafting, sport fishing, camping, hunting, kayaking, waterskiing, power and sail boat racing on two Great Lakes and in the 1000 island region, we have a NASCAR circuit track and scores of smaller raceways (dirt, drag, oval, road) we have county fairs with more children raising and caring for livestock than you could imagine. We have towns whose inhabitants can trace their roots back to revolutionary war veterans looking to settle down. We have a renaissance festival and civil war reenactments. We have several military bases
where our service men and women train and prepare to defend us or help us survive natural disaster. We have millions of us who wake up every day and go to work on farms and in factories and on construction sites.
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The rest of the world only knows about that city hundreds of miles away that also forgets we exist.
The New York state actually has other cities than New York?!
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The rest of the world only knows about that city hundreds of miles away that also forgets we exist.