Deseronto

A small town between Kingston and Belleville, Ontario with a population of 1800. Off the Bay of Quinte (Lake Ontario), very little industry resides in this town. There is an abandoned cannery named the Arctic Gardens and last known from 1994 an optical grinding plant. Smack dab in the middle of a Mohawk reservation, this little community once and may still retain the honour of being the area in Canada with the highest per capita of child abuse.

I spent a year or so in this place living in a rectory, doing the summer things such as;

• Swimming in a quarry
• Smoking hash oil & hot-knives in a barn with a torch
• Stealing food from IGA at the end of my shift
• Sitting on the 3 steps of city hall wasted
• Beating up the cat-torturing kid
• Skateboarding in the abandoned cannery
• Listening to crap hick music
• Puking green bile after funneling a mickey of Rum
• Hay-ride family outings on a neighbours apple orchard
• Haying bales of hay as a part-time summer job
• Kissing girls in the hay fields
• Stealing boats from the marina
• Cycling 70km a day in the summer dodging black flies
• Beating up my landlord who wouldn't kill his flea farm in the carpets

As you can tell small-town life is a great influence away from the big city troubles!

I fondly rename this town Despaironto.