Community Chat

[momtochloe]

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@jubilant wrote:

I didn't put in an interesting fact about Indiana so here it is:  Baseball was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  The first professional game was played there, May 4, 1871

  I also just read that Indiana is called the Mother of Vice Presidents.....hmmm....interesting.  LOL.

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Ok @jubilant but don't make me bust out that Illinois's State Fossil is the Tully Monster . . . tee hee . . . I love this thread!  

[DoneTryin]

@SilleeMee. Don't forget the first Colorado state song is "Where The Columbines Grow" adopted in 1915.  "Rocky Mountain High" was adopted in 2007.  

There are also other symbols, such as state amphibian, state fossil, & others.  Now I'm inspired to go look up all of those, too.

[AKgirl2]

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@riley1 wrote:

@AKgirl2 - you said you were from NY and loved the water - are you from the LI area or Lake region? I'm originally from NJ

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Westchester County, NY...grew up very close to Long Island Sound (Rye Beach in Rye, NY)...Dated a great guy from Jersey, he was from Alpine.

[GrnEyeGal]

State song:  Hail Minnesota

State fruit:  Honeycrisp apple

State bird:  Common Loon

State tree:  Norway Pine

State flower:  pink and white ladyslipper

These are for Minnesota

[jubilant]

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@momtochloe wrote:

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@jubilant wrote:

I didn't put in an interesting fact about Indiana so here it is:  Baseball was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  The first professional game was played there, May 4, 1871

  I also just read that Indiana is called the Mother of Vice Presidents.....hmmm....interesting.  LOL.

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Ok @jubilant but don't make me bust out that Illinois's State Fossil is the Tully Monster . . . tee hee . . . I love this thread!  

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**********  LOL!  Thanks for liking my thread, mtc, and everyone.  I'm learning a lot, too.

[SilleeMee]

Colorado...I just read this!

State pets : rescue dogs and cats

This just made my day.

Colorado is called "The Shelter Pet State"....how cool is that!

[riley1]

@AKgirl2 My daughter just moved out of Westchester Cty. Alpine is a beautiful town. I worked in Englewood Cliffs many years ago not far from Alpine.

[Citrine1]

2 weird Pennsylvania laws:

It is illegal to sing in the bathtub

It's illegal to sweep dirt under the rug     

Pennsylvania has the highest Amish population in the world.

Hershey, PA is considered the chocolate capital of the United States.

Kennett Square, PA is the mushroom capital of the world.

The first department store in the world was located in Philadelphia.  Wanamaker's.

I've been there many times.  (It no longer exists)

The Crayola factory is located in the Lehigh Valley.  They produce 3 billion crayons a year. 

Some famous Pennsylvanians:

Taylor Swift

Patti LaBelle

Bill Cosby

Will Smith

Andy Warhol

Tina Fey

Kobe Bryant

Joe Biden

Kevin Hart

Kevin Bacon

Gene Kelly

Grace Kelly

Pink

M. Night Shyamalan

Darryl Hall

Al Martino

Bret Michaels

Questlove

Shirley Jones

Seth Green

Jamie Kennedy

Bob Saget

Billy Gardell

Jon Daly

Charles Bronson

Frankie Avalon

Boyz to Men

Christina Aguilera

Jim Croce

[qualitygal]

I know:

We have the Petosky stone

We have great trees

We have a bizillion lakes and we're surrounded by The Great Lakes.

We have 4 seasons, usually

We have an upper Penn.

We have a town named Holland and each May, the town gets dressed up in Dutch clothes with wooden shoes and they clean the streets and have a parade. They also have the Tulip festival.

We have the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings.

Motown was/is  in that area too.

That's just for starters.

[LIndaMJ]

North Carolina:

state bird-cardinal

state tree-long leaf pine 

state flower-dogwood

state song-The Old North State

Although years ago I helped one of our boys do a project on our state, I couldn't remember a thing & googled for the answer.

@AKgirl, I grew up on Demarest, next to Alpine.

@riley1, I used to work in Englewood Cliffs also, in Prentice Hall.