by riddoc98 » Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:42 am
My city.. Well, we have several claims to fame. Nothing really current--no celebs hail from my town or anyone really of note. Most of our notable things are from long ago--the late 1800?s and early 1900?s--mineral water was the first one. Back in the late 1800?s we had a booming economy and luxury hotels and six passenger trainloads of people a day coming in to drink or bathe in our mineral water(they thought it had healing powers)--as opposed to a currently dying downtown and only about 5500 people....Mineral Water made us into quite the place to be back in the "good old days". But, that didn't last too long. Then there was ice cream! We had a family that had a huge dairy farm, but didn?t like only getting 2 cents a quart for it. In 1896, they started making Ice Cream, and the company they created lasted until the 1960?s, and they made us the Ice Cream Capital of the World(or so they say). There used to be ice cream festivals and contests and all kinds of events tied to ice cream....but that was back before my time. Of a more recent note, we had a little incident in the late 1980?s, I think it was. Being on a river, we have a lot of dams in our town, and one winter some cows got out on the ice and drowned in the river. Their bodies ended up getting caught in the hydroelectric wheel on the river, and went around and around in the dam....it was too dangerous to get them out, so it took several days to to figure out a safe way to do so. So every since them then it?s been kind of a legend for the town--the day the cows were in the dam, spinning around and around....gruesome, but funny! So now we have a Dam Festival, with the logo being cows in the dam(but the graphic makes them look like HAPPY COWS, rather than dead ones, thank goodness!) It's one of our own claims to fame now, bizarre as it seems! Poppet! 40 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.