FROM AWAY: An individual originally socialized elsewhere.  People who are From Away may not also be Natives (see NATIVE, below).

 

LOCAL: 1.(adj) Belonging to or representative of this place.

             2.(noun) One who conveys values associated with this place.

            3.(noun) perjorative. an individual displaying characteristics commonly associated with geographic inexperience and/or inbreeding. Locals associated with this definition display fierce territorial tendencies.

 

NATIVE: (Noun) A person who is born here or born in a nearby hospital

during a hospital stay of a week or less.  Natives are born, not made.

One's adult place of residence, education, or social standing is immaterial to the status of nativity.  Nelson Rockefeller was a native of Bar Harbor, not Seal Harbor, due to duration of his hospital stay..

 

PERMANENT TRANSIENT: One who repeatedly appears during the warmer months for purposes of employment or during the cooler months for educational purposes.  Permanent Transients occupy communal nests.  Should a Permanent Transient fail to migrate and acquire a nest, he will first become fiercely territorial, then will display the qualities of a Transplant or Refugee and must be reclassified.

 

REFUGEE: One who settles in this area claiming affinity for the values,

procedures and traditions found here and effectively adopts to all these characteristics.  Transplants may often be converted to refugees in a process of assimilation requiring three to five years (see TRANSPLANT, below).

 

SEASONAL NATIVE: (noun) The obverse of the Year-round summer resident, the Seasonal Native is one who has acquired autumnal migratory tendencies, often near the end of long tenure.  Seasonal Natives show affinity for retirement communities in Florida and Arizona and may be identified by a proclivity to foreign-made automobiles.

 

SUMMER RESIDENT: (noun) One who migrates to Northeast Harbor for the warmest months and engages in social behavior common to his peers.  Summer Residents are entitled to, but often eschew, finer plumage than others and may often be identified only by their elaborate nests.  Summer Residents, particularly of the Native variety, often prefer archaic domestic automobiles.

 

TOURIST: One whose appearance is part of the migratory process. Tourists may sometimes be identified by their plumage and recreational habits. In many places their seasonal appearance is a matter of economic necessity or otherwise is desireable. An increasing number of Tourists possess portable nests called "motor homes". 

 

TRANSIENT: (noun) A tourist or a migratory bird who perches for a season (see also PERMANENT TRANSIENT).

 

TRANSPLANT: One who settles in this area claiming affinity for the values, procedures and traditions found here, but then proceeds to try to impose the values, procedures and traditions from wherever he came from.  Transplants are sometimes  converted to Refugees, but often fine this area inhospitable. (see REFUGEE, above). 

 

YEAR-ROUND SUMMER RESIDENT: A Summer Resident whose migratory tendency is lost or sharply curtailed.  A Year-round summer resident will make his nest suitable for winter use or will acquire a second, winter nest. Upon assuming Year-round summer resident status and individual may associate with what he calls "the retirement community."

 

YEAR-ROUNDER: One who does not migrate. Year-rounders may be Natives, Refugees or other forms of Local.  Year-rounders with transplant characteristics do not last.

 

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