what's unique about your home town?

[ChiefCowpie]

in woodstock, ny, if you throw a brick high in the air at the village green, chances are one in three it will land on an alternative health therapist

[sweatininthesouth]

The place I live now, has about 80 miles of paved bike paths running through the city. They weave in and out of subdivisions, retail areas, under the highway....everywhere. Most everyone here owns a golf cart and you can take your cart on the paths and never have to get in your car or travel on a road/street. At night, you can hear all the crazies in the woods hoopin and hollerin in their carts as they fly down the paths, sippin' wine and carryin' on. It ain't too bad here, sometimes.

[luvndrumn]

It's where I live.;)


It has a street that has statues of Confederate generals and an African-American tennis player.


It has the church where Patrick Henry gave his "Liberty or Death" speech.


It was the last capitol of the Confederacy.

[crummyrummy]

In my home town ( not current residence) they got an old abandoned Midget Colony. Just like like an old folks home, but 2/3 as big.......

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I don't really have a home town...we've moved so much, so I'll go wit where I live now...

We get to see the cargo planes coming into Dover AFB from Iraq...and are often blessed with an areonautical display of our countries flying finest when they break the sound barrier over the beaches. We have more put~put golf courses per capita than is advisable.


...I'm still laughing about the midget home and golf cart people!!

[nirgal]

I don't have a hometown either, and where I live is just a place that has always felt temporary. Sooooo I guess the closest I can say is a little town in CT where I went to HS, the major feature is a large park in the center full of 150 year old Beech and Linden trees that have seen many generations of hippytypes up in them.....

[Bee_Rain]

Where abouts in CT Nigral? That description sounds alot like the town I grew up in (Newington) right outside of Hartford.

We don't have much around here thats worth mentioning except alot of abandoned ranches that I've been tempted to claim stake at.

I did see a young mountain lion the other day, does that count?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I've been wondering what the scenery is like where you are Beth?? I guess I don't know where exactly you are...

[nirgal]

Corn fields!

Bee, I was in Ridgefield, about 10miles south of Danbury.... I drove through there a couple of years ago and it's just the same as it was 30yrs ago. :)

Doesn't feel strange to drive through a place that you grew up and see all the places again?

[Bee_Rain]

Doesn't feel strange to drive through a place that you grew up and see all the places again?
I wouldn't know! I spent the first 26 years of my life in CT and haven't been back there for almost 12 years! I'd probably cry at all the changes!

I'll try and get you some pics from the web Kim. I'm right on the border of SD and WY. Didn't you used to live in SD?

Anyways, let me go see if I can find you something....

[boringtree]

U2 are from here. one of the westlife shites live here. and the infamous artane boys band are from artane too

[beachbum7]

I can't say there anything super unique about my hometown. I love it to death, but... I can't say this is unique, but something I find interesting is that three sections of my hometown include the name Garfield (They weren't named after the famous fat cat though I wish they were), as I lived in a section called Garfield North.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

We lived in Oakes North Dakota which was about and hour in from the east side of South Dakota.

When i get out to Utah to visit my friend Sheila, we'll have to see if we can swing by! We still need to have our play date!!:)

[BraveSirRubin]

my original home town of St.Petersburg , Russia doesn't need much describing.

My current town, La Lima , Honduras is famous for having the largest golf course in central america.

[Bee_Rain]

We lived in Oakes North Dakota which was about and hour in from the east side of South Dakota.

When i get out to Utah to visit my friend Sheila, we'll have to see if we can swing by! We still need to have our play date!!:)

That would be so cool! We have a huge teepee set up if y'all wanted to campout for a night or 12. well, not really. The wind chose to blow it down last week but we'll have it taken care of soon enough!

[Bee_Rain]

Here's a picture of Fort Robinson, about 4 miles away from me as a crow flies...


http://www.filmnebraska.org/gallery/images/land_04_large.jpg

[nirgal]

Oh, give me a home
where the Buffalo roam.........

[HoneySuckleBlue]

My favorite is Crusty Butte..lol.

[Duncan]

The Motto of San Gabriel is "A City with a Mission". Although it's not the ORIGINAL mission, there still stands a mission with a working Roman Catholic church that dates back to the days of Mexican Indian days.

We have wild parrots, a huge variety of foliage and some wonderful agriculture that dates back to the settlement years.

[teepi]

I'll have to go with the town closest to me...about 15 miles.

There's serpent mound,pretty cool.
And last year there was a very nice crop circle that appeared right across the road from there in a soy bean field,way cool.

There is probably a pic somewhere of the crop circle on this here superhighway, but I don't know how to do the picture thing in my posts.

If anyone wants to look it up...Peebles Ohio.

Oh and at the "old timers day" festival they have in town there is a group of cloggers, they get out there in their hot pants, with their Boom box, and go nuts....they're all over 60.

Whoo Hooo go granny go....

[7river]

chiefcowpie is not joking about the alternative therapists! we have spirit healers for your pet, your tree and your rock....very spiritual:)


well my home town is bklyn ny. at the end of my block was a apt above the gemini lounge that became famous for a gangster who choped up a whole lot of people with a chainsaw in the bathroom. then he put the bodies out with the trash. when i was a kid (during time of the crime) we used to dare each other to bang on the door and see who could stay longest...we had no idea...or at least i had no what was going on :0

now i live in saugerties village, nestled between the hudson river and the catskill mountains. the very mountain rip van winkle is said to have slept on for 100 years.

home of the garlic festival:)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Man you have the most interesting stories Ron! With a chainsaw??? What a mess!

I found the crop circle but they would'nt let me borrow the picture so you guys haveta click on the entire link...it looks like it has an eyeball! Neat!
http://www.iwasabducted.com/cropcircles/peeblesoh090403.htm

[moominmamma]

Hem, Norwich in the UK. Well about ten years ago it was voted the last bastion of white supremacism in the UK. Very odd because in my experience there were people here from all over the world - but mainly as professionals (doctors, chemists, solicitors) or small business people (Indian\Chineses takeaways - the East European emigres from Hitler and Stalin pretty much had the local jewellry\antiques trade sewn up, and we swallowed up large numbers of Vietnamese boat people).

It has an 11th century cathedral with spire that dominates the skyline. A Victorian recreation of the Norman castle. It was supposed to have a church for every week of the year, and a pub for every day, within the city walls.

It was the ancient capital of large areas of the east of England, and for nearly a thousand years was second only to London in size and importance.

For some reason it became the centre of captive song-bird breeding. leading to a new species - the Norwich Canary. It was yellow and green, with a mop top of feather. The local soccer team are nicknamed The Canaries, and play in Yellow and Green. For a while when the team scored everyone stood up and waved giant inflatable canaries - a spectacular sight.

Norwich has been the home of the Reckitts, the Colemans, the Frys and the Gurneys, as well as off-shoots off the Rowntree's. Quaker familys - they set up model factories in the 1800's as examples to the world, and revolutionised the production of foodstuffs. Probably Reckitts & Colemans is the brand best known around the world, but there was also Fry's Chocolate and Rowntree Mackintosh. The Gurneys introduced modern banking as we know it - branches, cheques, etc. Eventually they decided to distance the family name from the company and so it was rebranded with the name of one of the small regional banks they'd swallowed up - Barclays. They also had a hand in the creation of Norwich Union Insurance. The Fry women were instrumental in prison reform and the abolition of slavery within the British Empire - something that had a major impact on the economic viability of slavery in the US.

Ok - enough of the history lesson and sounding like Chekov out of Star Trek - to the best of my knowledge no one from Norwich invented sliced bread, the theory of relativity or split the atom first. The place is a bit of a Bermuda triangle - once people arrive they tend not to go back. Most people who come here are wowed by how green the city is, the sheer number of trees, the local heath that comes almost to the town centre, the coastline only 20 miles away, the local lakes, (known as broads). Until recently they also couldn't escape because the road and rail links were crap. The city may be littered with historic buildings, but it also has some monstosities. The town centre was pretty much bombed to oblivion in April 1942, (Sorry - history lesson again) and some of the buildings thrown up to fill in the gaps leaves a lot to be desired.

Depending on which poll you read we are the most helpful but the least friendly. Certainly out in the surrounding countryside there are famillies that won't talk to you unless they've known your family for at least four generations.

However in my lifetime its grown from a city of 100,000 that served as shopping centre\Market town for 500,000, it's now about 300/400,000 with millions living within two hours travel time. Its becoming a multi-ethnic 24/7 kind of place and so is starting to lose its distinctiveness.

Is it me or are a lot of citys\big towns losing their uniqueness?