Tell us something cool/interesting about your town.

[jrydberg]

Something cool... hrmm... well that's easy! *I* live there

 

[arminnie]

The Clinton Presidential Library (sans blue dress) will open here in November.

I've been to the LBJ and JFK libraries so it will be interesting to see this one too.

 

[TLinden16]

Jingle Bells was written in my hometown of Medford, MA.

Karen

 

[OhMari]

Playboy is printed in our town. The workers can get one for .25. I don't know if I should of said that or not. What a thing to be known for,

plus all those flyer coupons you get in the newspapers, they print those, plus a lot of other magazines.

 

[castlegazer]

My hometown, not where I live now, just discovered that they have the earliest recorded document mentioning baseball, so we now have an earlier record of the game being played than Cooperstown.

 

[btass]

We have the highest median income in the country $115,000 (too bad my family is considered low-income here)

There was also a quary in town that gave all the rock for the Brooklyn Bridge.

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Lots of famous people lived in Ann Arbor at one point in their lives

A few notables:
-Former US President Gerald Ford
-Madonna
-Bob Seger (went to the same middle school I did, albeit a few years earlier than I)
-George Frayne and John Tichy (2 original members of "Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen")
-Folk singer Katie Geddes
-Professional athletes, including a 2-time super bowl MVP (Tom Brady), Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard, Jim Harbaugh (also went to the same middle school that I did), Brendan Morrison, Rudy Tomjonavich, and others
-Astronaut Jack Lousma
-Ken Burns

Aside from the famous people, Ann Arbor also has a pretty decent-sized university, and a large Pfizer research facility (Lipitor was developed in Ann Arbor, as was Viagra, I belive), and one of the largest art fairs in the nation.

 

[castlegazer]

Originally posted by btass
We have the highest median income in the country $115,000 (too bad my family is considered low-income here)

Oh man! This only struck me because I am just doing some marketing research for my company on a town with a median income of $24,000. Yeah, I'd rather be doing research on your area of CT.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Syracuse has an astronaut from there. I didn't know that.

Danauk- You have castles, thats so cool! I can't imagine living near a castle.

Well, I have a Rail trail that I absolutely love. I also have Farmers Markets that have really interesting stuff!

 

[MICKEY88]

my current hometown is the home of The Mickeymobile

the town I grew up in was home to Gary Collins of the Cleveland Browns...

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Originally posted by minniepumpernickel
Syracuse has an astronaut from there. I didn't know that.

Actually, several have gone through Syracuse. Lousma is actually from Ann Arbor (my hometown)

Astronauts that either went to or are from Syracuse:
Eilleen Collins
Story Musgrave
Sean O'Keefe (NASA Administrator)
William Fisher