VIllage Person or Tourist?

Hello June Bugs,

As you know, Lake Erie communities are anticipating the fast-approaching beginning of the tourist season. Visitors are good. They keep the local moneymaker shakin', are appreciative of our local color and often get drunk and hook up with those of us who have worked our way through everything the village has to offer.

But how can you tell a tourist from a local? Not by the clothing. Since Jimmy Buffett became a Rondeau Bay cult hero you're as likely to see one of us in a Hawaiian shirt and flipflops as a visitor. Not by the camera around the neck. I think this blog kinda proves that those are everywhere. Heck even the crowd at the public beach are 50/50: locals/visitors. The only way to tell a true villager (someone who has been in town for 20 + years or born there) is by a remarkable geographically-isolated genetic mutation. As the shot above demonstrates, real villagers can be identified only by their ever-so-slightly oversized heads. It's almost as difficult as identifying a female warbler in the fall migration for all you birders out there.