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Greg McAvoy

Catholicism Strikes Again

Time is a Flat Circle As a God-fearing man who occasionally will drop a George Washington into the collection bin, I can say this: the Catholic church has its flaws. We all do, though. We stumble, we fall, and then get back up, this

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Greg McAvoy

My Two Home States: New York and Fear

Do Not ‘Fear Not’ Similar to every other living, breathing, sentient being on this lush planet of ours, I too get scared. With the exception of maybe Dennis Rodman, each of us fear something. Man, woman, toddler, dog, orangutang, Cornish game hen, screaming hairy

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Greg McAvoy

European Urbex – The Wild Frontier

Or Shall I Say Eurbex? I’m proud to announce that after scouring the internet for longer than I care to admit, the term ‘Eurbex’ was nowhere to be found.  Anyone who still holds their phone with one hand and types with one single finger

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Greg McAvoy

Can This Be My 9-5?

One Qualm To Rule Them All Anyone else working a glamorous 9-5 job may even resonate with this. And I hope you do. I hope with every you sentence you nod and think to yourself, “Hey. This work complainer is right.” I hope it

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Greg McAvoy

Hats Off to Tioranda

The Man in the Bowler Hat An enormous shout-out to Lewis Tompkins, the man behind creating New York’s hat manufacturing capital in 1879. The Tioranda Hat Factory would be nothing without him. Instead, Danbury, Connecticut would have ruled the hat making industry with an

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Greg McAvoy

Mt. Rushmore – The Abandoned U.S.

Some Bucket Lists The land of the free offers anything and everything you could ever hope to receive from under the sun. Opportunities. Wealth. Cars from around the world. A college education at the cost of a murderer’s bail. The McGangbang. The list goes

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Greg McAvoy

Orange [County] is the New Black

Another Bad Camp. Do you want to know what Orange County, N.Y. has that the prolific Orange County, C.A. doesn’t? An abandoned women’s correctional facility. Do you want to know what they do have? Money, warm weather year round, perfect tans, etc. Just about

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Greg McAvoy

Let the Good Times Roll

We are so Back. BabyBACK ribs. Baby got BACK. BACKstreet Boys. BACKgammon. Notice the common theme here? That’s right. Back – and that is what we are. Like the common North American black bear, we too, had to bunker down and hibernate during this

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Greg McAvoy

The Pines Resort – Another Notch on the Borscht Belt

So Which Notch is This? The lesser known, younger brother to the Grossinger’s Resort – The Pines Resort. And what do these two resorts have in common? They both look like trash and are beyond abandoned. It was one of the many resorts located

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Greg McAvoy

Top 5 Abandoned Building Beers

Abandon It, and They Will Come It is a tale as old as time itself. As long as there is a vacant building returning to the ground it once proudly stood on, there will be empty beers within. Eager sixteen- and seventeen-year-old kids grasping

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