# Most interesting thing about your hometown **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719 "2010-11-06T18:25:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/1 "2010-11-06T18:25:34Z")
What’s the most interesting piece of trivia about your hometown? If where you live nowhas better trivia than where you were born, list that. For me: (tie) In the town I was born: 1.The Suffolk Resolves (precursor to the Articles of Confederation) were signed there. 2.George H. W. Bush was born there. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/2 "2010-11-06T19:10:37Z")
Probably the Isle of man Tourist Trophy. Start/Finish line is in my current hometown of Douglas. I am not sure if there’s a ‘bigger’ motorbike road race event in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/3 "2010-11-06T19:10:52Z")
I’ve lived in a lot of places, but I consider Pigeon, MI to be my hometown, because that’s where I went to jr high and high school. Once when I was living there, it was mentioned on The Today Show as being the biggest producer of sugar beets. So now you know! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/4 "2010-11-06T19:32:34Z")
Sherwood Park is the world’s largest hamlet. As far as I know, that’s official. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/5 "2010-11-06T19:55:25Z")
Our baseball team won the World Series last week. ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/6 "2010-11-06T20:02:52Z")
My hometown was named after Roger Griswold who threw a [hissy fit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence#United_States) in 1798 in the US House of Representatives. Also, there was a Daily Show [segment](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-6-2007/sam-on-your-side--bill-russell) filmed there about an atheist trying to get the church to stop playing religious songs from the bell-tower (the chimes really are annoying but not because of the songs). ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/7 "2010-11-06T20:04:20Z")
Country singer Keith Urban grew up here. It’s not a very interesting town. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/8 "2010-11-06T20:08:03Z")
Home of the TV series Bonanza. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/9 "2010-11-06T20:10:36Z")
It is the standard for middle America, as evidenced by the phrase “will it play in Peoria?” (Illinois) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/10 "2010-11-06T20:12:42Z")
Milwaukee Wisconsin. Spencer Tracy was born here, when to 4 of his 7 high schools here. Not that interesting but it’s what I could come up with off the top of my head. I’m sure I’ll think of more later. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/11 "2010-11-06T20:42:32Z")
The city I grew up in is the largest in the United States without a comprehensive public transit system. I believe the people living there now are proud of this, and to be honest the public library sucked when I lived there too. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/12 "2010-11-06T21:01:33Z")
Home of the first Little Caesars, first Kmart, and supposedly the first dine-in McDonald’s (couldn’t find a cite). All 3 are still in operation or at least they were when I visited a couple of months ago. Not too bad for an otherwise unremarkable Detroit suburb. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/13 "2010-11-06T21:32:02Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Our baseball team won the World Series last week. Mine too! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/14 "2010-11-06T21:44:38Z")
The most interesting thing about Peterborough, Ontario (besides me): [the Peterborough Lift Lock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock). A classic of Victorian engineering. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/15 "2010-11-06T22:02:01Z")
Dracula lived there. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/16 "2010-11-06T22:02:12Z")
I grew up in Haifa, birthplace of Gene Simmons and the Pentium dual-core processor; home of Israel’s only subway (actually an underground cable car), and of the cave of the prophet Elijah. The city was conquered by the British in 1918, led by an elite force of Indian cavalry armed with lances and sabres. I was born in Jerusalem, but I can’t really think of anything interesting ever happening there. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/17 "2010-11-06T22:04:08Z")
There are actually several rather interesting things about my hometown: 1. The movie “Easy A” was filmed there. 2. It’s the Bionic Woman’s hometown. 3. We have a world famous (or at least nationally famous) jazz festival. 4. We have a world famous (or at least nationally famous) tennis tournament. 5. The lady who was the inspiration for Rose in “Titanic” was a longtime resident and artist. 6. We have a world-famous [outdoor bookstore](http://www.bartsbooksojai.com/). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/18 "2010-11-06T22:05:08Z")
Mine is the home of the first ironworks in America, and of 2 of the top 3 grossing restaurants in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/19 "2010-11-06T22:20:00Z")
A few little things like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were written there. The Liberty Bell is there. Betsy Ross house is there. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/20 "2010-11-06T22:21:58Z")
[European Treaty was signed in Maastricht;](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty) [Maastricht](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht)is a two thousand year old town with plenty of Roman and medieval remains. The town was besieged, on average, once every fifteen years throughout those two thousand years. Every conquering army patched up the hole in the defenses they themselves had come though, so the defenses got stronger and stronger untill the town was surrounded by the most extensive battlements in Europe. Home of musician [Andre Rieu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu), currently the biggest selling star of “classical” music in Australia. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719.md?page=2)