Interesting things about your town

[Kraco]

I doubt there're terribly many internationally curious things over here.

The only thing might be the Air Guitar World Championships. It's a 10 years old event, and participants come from all over the world.

[Newtyped]

I doubt there're terribly many internationally curious things over here.

The only thing might be the Air Guitar World Championships. It's a 10 years old event, and participants come from all over the world.

I feel sorry for your town

[Assertn]

http://www.google.com/search?q=holly...en-US:official

Amsterdam, we all know whats interesting here

AIDS?

[masamuneehs]

i actually have a few things about my town.

1. The very first pet cemetery in the US is in my town. Founded in 1896.

2. The very first Carvel ice cream store was (and still is) in my town. Carvel is the chain that pionerred soft-serve ice crea, and Flying Saucers (ice cream between round chocolate waferish thingies). It was a traveling ice cream truck but in 1934 it broke down in my town and the guy decided to start his store at that spot.

3. The Odell House is in my town. It is a spot where the French general Comte had several meetings with American revolutionaries, including George Washington. There was also a small Revolutionary War battle fought in my town, along the Bronx River.

4. The first American to ever recieve a TV transmission lived in my town. In 1928 John Logie Baird sent the first successful inter-continental television signal to O.G. Hutchinson, who was living in my town at the time.

5. My town is also the location for the Ferncliff Cemetery. Notobales amongst the buried are: Malcolm X, Judy Garland, Aaliyah, Ed Sullivan, Alan "Moondog" Freed (the NY DJ who helped coin the term 'rock and roll'), jazz musician Gerry Mulligan, actress Joan Crawford and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (founder of hip-hop group Run-DMC)

6. Apparently there is a Japanese rap/R&B group named the "Heartsdales" who take their name from my hometown, where they lived for several years.

For a town with less than 10K people (and god does it feel smaller than that...1,186.1/km² population density...) guess there's more land than I thought... well that's not bad for a small town nobody's ever really heard of.

[complich8]

Let's see ...

7 miles or so north of town, you can find the battleground where William Henry Harrison's army regiment crushed the spirit of Tecumseh's midwestern native american confederation in summer of 1811. That's sorta unique ...

Purdue was the first university to have an airport and an aviation program, and the first university to have a computer science program. The university has produced 22 astronauts. It's also home to an Accelerated Mass Spectrometer (sequestered under the memorial mall, about 50 feet underground ... it's neat). We've also got a functioning nuclear reactor, a supersonic wind tunnel, and the one of the largest auditoriums in the world (clocking in at 6025 seats -- more than twice as large as Carnegie Hall). We're also famous for graduating more women in engineering than ... well... pretty much anywhere. And we enroll more international students than any other US university.

We've also got some cool cultural stuff that goes on here... Purdue's "Spring Festival/Bug Bowl" in spring, "Dancing in the Streets" and "Taste of Tippecanoe" in the summer, "Feast of the Hunter's Moon" in fall.

It's not the NYC. It's not southern california. But it's got some uniqueness to it, ya know?

Oh yeah, and more restaurants per capita than anyplace else in the country!