# Most interesting thing about your hometown

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**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/101 "2010-11-12T19:17:50Z")

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Birthplace of Johnny Appleseed. Also, very importantly, the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament was invented here. Leominster, Ma.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/102 "2010-11-12T19:36:11Z")

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Not really _famous_ for anything, but we do have two interesting things.

[The Lord’s Prayer Rock](http://www.bristolvermont.us/Lords-Prayer-Rock.jpg). Just what it sounds like…a big rock with the Lord’s Prayer written on it just outside of the center of town.

And the weekly garbage pick-up is done by a horse-drawn wagon instead of a garbage truck.

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/103 "2010-11-12T20:03:54Z")

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> [@Tengu](#):
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> I’m from the same town (now city) as [Gordon Pinsent](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pinsent). (And a handful of other relatively famous people, but Gordon is the most interesting one.)

I currently live in that very town. I’m not sure I’d call it a city, though. If you ever come home again, we can have the worlds smallest dopefest. 😃

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**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-interesting-thing-about-your-hometown/559719/104 "2010-11-13T18:27:48Z")

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Our little town has no stop lights - but that’s not unusual as there are no traffic lights anywhere in the whole county. There are some stop signs, though.

Other than that, I got nuttin’.

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