My Hometown

I miss my years of the 3 hour drive to Syracuse just to take in a college basketball game. I started going because it was the closest college basketball game, and eventually became devoted to the Orangemen, especially in the Final Four tournament.

Wish I could remember the name of the little motel where I stayed just south-west of the city.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Wanganui on the Whanganui (pronounced Fonganui sorta)

Blood in the streets over whether or not the city should get the "H" treatment.....goes back a long way , over dialetical pronounciation of the Maori word

Seriously this is a great place to live .... because I live here:tongue3:

 

Home of the Herkimer diamond. They are actually a double terminated quartz crystal but that don't keep folk from digging for them. Locals don't get too excited about them. Our driveway is paved in crushed stone and is littered with diamonds.

We also have a larger stone that go by the name leaverite- as in "Don't take that rock; leaverite there..."

 

Central Florida grew because of Disney World.

 

I live in a small town that is not really famous for anything.:laugh: The best I could come up with is that Larry Flint (Hustler magazine publisher) was shot here in 1978. He was seriously disabled, but survived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenceville,_Georgia

 

Here are a few...

The only major US city that has two national parks -- The Everglades and Biscayne National Park
SoBe and other beautiful beaches
Coconut Grove
The Miami Dolphins - the only football team with a perfect record
The U - 5 national football championships since 1980

 

Map
If you follow the map west out State Hwy 100, you'll find the community of Carraway. That is where yours truly lives. :wavey:

Palatka FL

After the Spanish established St Augustine they began exploring the inward regions of Florida. Going west they happened upon a pre-Seminole (Timucuan) settlement along the River of Lakes that the Spanish named the St Johns River. They found that at low tide the river could be forded and walked across at the location of Palatka (pre-Seminole name for crossing, much the same meaning as the Swedish word fjord).

The settlement saw much activity as the Spanish settlers began to settle more inland. The plains of Alachua (modern Alachua County) began to be used as cattle ranches and many a cattle drive came through Palatka where they would cross the river on route to St Augustine. The name Palatka became known then as cattle crossing.

From Wikipedia;

George Herman (Babe) Ruth Started a baseball clinic here in the 1940's.

 

My hometown is actually Chicago, and I was recently called ignorant on this board because I currently live in the south, the assumption was if you live in the south you must be ignorant and backwoods.
Actually in my current town there is a famous landmark, or at least we are famous for it, it has national recognition. But I can't tell you anything, I won't invite the next online stalker(the first from here on the good old BB) to find me.

 

Sorry to read, Donna, that you have been troubled by a stalker on the net. No one should have to live with that.

I don't believe that the South automatically includes ignorance, anymore than I believe that all people living in Southside Chicago are poor and ignorant. I had a flat there when I attended the University of Chicago.

Cheers, and bless,

Jim

 

Georgetown, Md. The only attraction I can think of is that we got a new stop light last fall. It's a real one, too, with red, yellow, and green. Not just a blinking red light like those yokels over in Earleville.

In all seriousness, though, our area is unique because we played a large part in the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War but apart from a small harbor here where the British were defeated in 1812 (well, actually, they weren't so much "defeated" as much as a lady innkeeper refused to serve them and they got mad and left), but not many people know about all of that.

 

I am never sure whether to list my hometown as Plaistow, East London, England, Tamworth, Ontario where I plan to live out my days.

Tamworth is only one of four Tamworths in the world: England, Australia, New Hampshire, USA and Ontario, Canada.

Here we have to count cats and dogs to qualify as a village. Hey, we are big enough to have a carwash! The founder came from Tamworth, England and his original house still stands on a street named after Peel, a famous Brit, who founded the school system in England and later became Prime Minister.

I actually live on my 100 acre estate located in Ballahack, so named by the Irish settlers. The dividing line is right down the centre of my road. Can you imagine that? The funny part is, the Irish Club of the area, bought acreage down the street from my, but on the English side of the road. The first question I was asked when I came here was; "Are you Catholic or Protestant?" I said, "Neither. I am a Baptist." That got them thinking!

The village virtually consists of a main street, which is also the through highway. We can still stop our motorcars in the middle of the street and engage in chat without tooters sounding off!

The great part of these backwoods communities is that I can ask anyone in the village what I did yesterday and get the right answer.

Cheers, and bless,

Jim

 

If it makes you feel better, I was born and raised in Alabama and we're known as the birthplace of the space program and are reknowned for our Shakespeare Festival in Birmingham. We also have Auburn University, which is famous for it's engineering programs and school of veterinary medicine, as well as producing more Space Shuttle commanders than any other school except for the Naval Academy.

We also have UAB, which has been recognized for many years as a leader in cardiology and sports medicine.

So, I get a lot of the same things. Just the other day, a couple of DJs on the radio were making fun of Southerners, saying that we must all live in trailers and be barefoot and uneducated.

Sure, some stereotypes still exist, but I just think of the wonderful things Alabama has given the world.

 

I don't have a hometown. :wavey:

 

It has now been confirmed. Marcia is from outerspace..........:laugh:

Cheers,

Jim

 

What is special about my hometown?

That's easy...

I'm from there!!! LOL...

OR if you ask the right people...

I'm not there now!!

 

There are those who would agree with you! :laugh: