Alone is quite a unique place. It is nestled between the majestic Adirondack mountains and the border of the great white north – Canada. With few neighbors in the mountains and few neighbors across the border, this made Alone the perfect place for Santa’s and Fizzle’s little adventure.
It is a small town too. There are more cows than people. It’s hard to get an exact cow count as a great deal of the cows run wild in the woods. Still, the countable cows do outnumber the countable people.
And it’s not just stuck under Canada but stuck under French Canada. Many Alone families are originally from French-Canadiens. With family names like..
LaBrake, LaRocque, LaRock, LaFountain, LaMountain, LaFleur, LaPlante, LaMonde,
Legault, LeClerc,
Claudette, Bessette, Bissonnette, Monnett, Collet,
Gereaux, Lemieux,
… some would say it was little French-Canada.
School children, your age, learned songs like Frère Jacques and Alouette even though they didn’t understand the words.
With the small towns in the mountains and people across the border who spoke a different language, this kept the people of Alone well… “alone”. If someone figured out Santa trick-or-treated in Alone… who would they tell? The cows?