Fun facts about where you live!

[Lindsey]

That house is beautiful Diana! And I love the Victorian house picture on the Chamber of Commerce site.
The whole area looks so beautiful. I love places with a lot of history!

[DianaB]

I was in that house years ago for a meeting. I remember that the ceilings were very high in it. A banker in town lives in it now and it is a very beautiful home! It's one of the few homes that we have on the National Register.

There's a home that's to the right of this house that's considered a haunted house. It has a sad story that goes with it of a man who fell in love with a woman and had the house built for her to live in after they were married but while on their honeymoon she didn't feel comfortable using the bathroom anywhere and she got very ill and died. The man never came back to the house to live. The people who live there now have done some extensive remodeling and they say that she roams the hallways of the house. She also turns the lights on and off among other things. I got to see that house on a house tour that we have once a year.

[Lindsey]

That is so creepy! There are a few haunted houses here whose stories are published in a book I have. I've only seen one of them in person, it's on the riverbank and not far from where I live.

[Janet]

There is really nothing here in Frankfort. We have a railroad and a Roundhouse (where they turn the railroad cars around to head another direction...very very primative), we have a couple motels, town square, Wal Mart, nice schools, John Deere Implement and a couple other implement dealers..lol..we're a farming community. Nothing unusual to have combines or tractors driving through town or even being driven to the store. Couldn't find any really good pictures to link to. I'll keep trying though. Oh we do have a few festivals in our county, such as the Hotdog Festival, Kirk's Crossing in Kirklin, Summer's End Festival in Rossville (this weekend), and also this weekend is the first festival for this little burg of a place (sneeze and you miss it) called Jefferson.

[DianaB]

Ok Janet, this is for you.

This is her library. Isn't it a beautiful building? There's also some facts about her community.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genIn...?locIndex=5360

This is a school. It looks a lot like a school we have in my town.

http://www.historiclandmarks.org/Sit...-Frankfort.jpg

This is her courthouse. It's very beautiful too!

http://www.indianalaw.to/clinton-cou...-frankfort.jpg

Here's a neat fountain!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...onfountain.jpg

Here's the Roundhouse!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...undhouse-1.jpg

So......How'd I do?

[gja1000]

I love Austin. I came here 23 years ago expecting to only stay 5-6 years, and here I am, 20+ years later.

Austin doesn't "feel" like Texas - yes, you may see some cowboy boots and hats, but Austin is much less "cowboy" than either Houston or Dallas.

Austin is a very laid back, funky, city with a small town attitude. A common bumper sticker that you will see around town says, "Keep Austin Weird". Another bumper sticker you might see is "Titty Bingo" - which is the name of a local band.

Many of the old hippies that didn't stay in California, came to Austin - some of them are my good friends. There is a wonderful feeling of acceptance here. My husband and I noticed immediately that we could go into a place of business, e.g., a restaurant, and someone would be dressed up in a suit and tie and next to them was someone in shorts and flip flops and it seems perfectly normal and no one thinks anyone else is over/under dressed.

Austin is considered by many as the "Live music capitol of the world". And indeed, you can find live music most anytime of the day or night in most any part of the city. We have large beautifully decorated guitars placed around the city to symbolize our love affair with music.

It is said that famous people who have homes here, e.g., Sandra Bullock, Lance Armstrong, Walter Cronkite, and Dennis Quaid, love it here because they can be out and about and no one bothers them. I heard Jesse James (Sandra Bullocks husband) in a TV interview, say that he loves Austin because he doesn't get stopped by the cops when they see all his tattoos.

Yes, Austin City Limits is filmed right here in the middle of town on the University of Texas campus. While it looks like the bands are playing outdoors, it is really just a pretty small room with a backdrop of the city lights. Yes, we have to regularly replace the green Austin City Limits highway signs on the roads into the city. The tickets are free and it really is a wonderful way to see some great acts up close and personal.

Austin is home to one of the worlds largest colonies of Mexican freetail bats (they come here from Mexico in the summer). They live under the bridge on Congress street over the Colorado river. When they fly out in the evening to feed, you will find hundreds of people down by the river banks watching the large black cloud of bats emerge. It takes them all about 15-20 minutes to fly out. It looks like a large wavey black cloud.

The restaurants in Austin are very very good - if not, the restaurant doesn't last long. Everyone loves to go out to eat and there is usually always a long wait at almost any restaurant in the evenings on the weekends. Many of them also have live music venues. Janis Joplin sang at Threadgill's restaurant back in the 60's before she was famous. Russell Crow and his band and Dennis Quaid and his band play at Stubb's BBQ joint.

I could blab on and on about Austin, I really do love this place.

Here's a website where you can learn more about my favorite city.

http://www.austintexas.org/

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Ok Janet, this is for you.

This is her library. Isn't it a beautiful building? There's also some facts about her community.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genIn...?locIndex=5360

This is a school. It looks a lot like a school we have in my town.

http://www.historiclandmarks.org/Sit...-Frankfort.jpg

This is her courthouse. It's very beautiful too!

http://www.indianalaw.to/clinton-cou...-frankfort.jpg

Here's a neat fountain!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...onfountain.jpg

Here's the Roundhouse!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...undhouse-1.jpg

So......How'd I do?

Good sleuthing Diana That courthouse is really beautiful.
Janet, it looks like a great place to live!

[Lindsey]

Gayle, that was a really good review of Austin It's great that you love it there. It's huge, isn't it? Probably huge to my standards How many people live there?

[Janet]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Ok Janet, this is for you.

This is her library. Isn't it a beautiful building? There's also some facts about her community.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genIn...?locIndex=5360

This is a school. It looks a lot like a school we have in my town.

http://www.historiclandmarks.org/Sit...-Frankfort.jpg

This is her courthouse. It's very beautiful too!

http://www.indianalaw.to/clinton-cou...-frankfort.jpg

Here's a neat fountain!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...onfountain.jpg

Here's the Roundhouse!

http://search.msn.com/images/results...undhouse-1.jpg

So......How'd I do?

The library hasn't looked like that for over 20 years...it's all been modernized, but I couldn't find any pictures.

That school will be tore down my October 1 .

The courthouse is beautiful and I grew up in our park and I've never ever seen that fountain. It must be an old picture, because I know every inch of that park. That is the roundhouse. The town is trying to find enough funds to turn it into a museum of sorts.

I think I have a very nice hometown. I just couldn't find any updated pictures of anything except the courthouse. I may go out this weekend and take a few pictures. I've been wanting to, but whether I have time is something else. I want to go shopping and I want to go to the festival too.

I'll just have to see what I can come with.

Thank Diana for doing this. It has got me to thinking...and that's a good thing..LOL.

[DianaB]

I found another cool site with pictures. It shows the Christmas star and our downtown area. The Missouri-Pacific Depot is where Janet and Marilyn bought their purses from. It's been converted into a flower shop. The Cox motel was owned by my parents and they lived in it while they ran it.

http://www.thelope.com/2007/12/star-of-fredonia.html

[Dobie]

One fun thing about Rhode Island is that Mr. Potato Head is the tourism ambassador.

[Chandra Amaya]

Elizabethton is a city in and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. It is also the site of the first independent American settlement west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen British colonies in America.

Jason Witten, Player for the Dallas Cowboys is from my town.


Filmed in the Philippines, Elizabethton, Tennessee, and other various Carter County, Tennessee locations such as Buck Mountain and the Bee Cliff.[1] The "Palace In The Sky" resort in Tagaytay was used as the setting for Ramon Cota's hideout. The interior set of Cota's hideout (and the sets from many other interior scenes) from Delta Force 2 were actually constructed within the warehouse of former shampoo manufacturer in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Shampoo labels with a Elvis-like caricature for "Love Me Tender Shampoo" were found still attached to columns within the warehouse stage.

http://www.elizabethtontennessee.com/