Hometown: Nashville, TN (hi fellow Tennessean)
The only people you see dressed up in sequins, overalls, belt buckles and cowboy hats are tourists and newcomers who want to become country music stars.
Our football team is suing the city .
Our biggest event is probably fan fair. (see number 1)
We fought a state income tax, got the state government shut down for a week, but got screwed with higher sales tax.
We have much more to offer than just country music!
Hometown: Galveston, Texas
Fun fact- we do disasters in a big way:[ul][li]In 1900, half of the buildings in town were pushed up into a woodpile. Hurricanes will do that.[/li]
[li]Ammonium Nitrate is no longer shipped over water because a couple of ships blew up in Texas City in the Forties. Car-sized chunks of concrete landed in Galveston, ten miles away.[/ul]Currently living in Austin, Texas[/li]Fact- The names of the surrounding towns are not pronounced the way they’re written.
HOMETOWN: West Chester, Pennsylvania
LOCATION: Southeastern PA, about 30 miles west of Philadelphia
SURPRISING FACTS:
Samuel Barber (20th-century composer), Claude Reins (silver screen actor), and Buffalo Bill (you know) all had houses here. One of my elementary school teachers lived next to Claude Reins when she was a child, and she said he was a most unpleasant man.
The town was incorporated in 1689, used to be called Turk’s Head, and changed its name to identify itself as being west of the town of Chester, which is now a ghastly place right outside of Philadelphia.
2b. My aunt and uncle live in an old farm house a few miles south of town, and they can trace the ownership of their property back to William Penn. When they renovated their house, a team of archaeologists was dispatched by the Chester County Historical Society to survey the land, and they discovered a bunch of material dropped by soldiers on their way to (or from) the Battle of the Brandywine during the Revolutionary War.
Current town: Asheville, North Carolina
Fun Facts:
There’s a suprisingly large community of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants here. It’s not uncommon to hear Russian spoken at the library or grocery store. It’s kind of cool. Though why all these folks decided to settle in southern Appalachia is a mystery to me.
Asheville is home to a lot of New Agers. Supposedly, a positive energy vortex draws seekers to the area. I keep saying I’m going to open a positive energy vortex in my backyard and charge folks ten bucks to cleanse their crystals there. 
And, according to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Urbana, IL is where the HAL-9000 computer became operational.
Current residence-Oklahoma City…(with a few facts concerning the state)
-Oklahoma is the only state with a nickname that describes a criminal act (People who crossed the boundary line in the April 22, 1889 landrush before the start time of 12;00pm (“high noon”) were therefore “sooners”, subject to justice, IIRC…
-Lake Tenkiller Golf Club, in eastern Okla, is the location of the only duckpin (rubberband, and on strings, alas) bowling alley west of the Mississippi.
-Many famous musicians/entertainers are from here or from surrounding suburbs…Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, B.J. Thomas, and a few others…
As for my hometown, Syracuse, NY, the only thing I can think of right now is that it is known as the “Salt City”, for its abundance of salty water that can be boiled to obtain salt rather than having to mine for it. I don’t know if this quality is still exploited, but, seeing as the city was founded in 1805, it was an issue as far as curing meat before 'fridge’s were around.
Fulton, MO checking in.
Winston Churchill gave his “Iron Curtain” speech at one of the colleges here.
Henry Bellamann, author of King’s Row, was raised here. It’s a book I highly recommend. I don’t think he liked it here very much. The movie isn’t bad, either, though not as good as the book.
We have 4 burger places, 3 pizza places, a Taco Bell, and a real Mexican restaurant. No fish place. I have to drive 25 miles to get Chicken Planks.
mmmmmmm…chicken planks…
HOMETOWN: Fredericksburg, Virginia
LOCATION: Roughly halfway between Richmond and Washington, D.C.
SURPRISING THINGS: Nearly 110,000 soilder were killed or wounded in the four battles fought in the vicinity of Fredericksburg during the Civil War. It is, after all, located roughly halfway between Richmond and Washington.
CURRENT TOWN: Richmond, Virginia
LOCATION: Central Virginia, at the fall line of the James River.
SURPRISING THINGS: The Capitol was designed by Thomas Jefferson.
Ok, I live in Baton Rouge, LA now, and I’m shocked at how stupid people are about the North East down here. These are things they just don’t know:
Hometown: Livonia, NY
Location: 45 Minutes south of Rochester
Things intelligent people might not know:
Glens Falls, NY
Location: Midway between Montreal and NYC.
The setting for James Fenimore Cooper’s “Last of The Mohicans”
The home to the only 2 television listings companies in the US (Tribune Media Services and TVData), which just merged by the way.
The host of the annual Adirondack Balloon Festival (second only to Albuquerque in size).
Honey
Greenville, NC (about 1.5-2 hours east of Raleigh)
Has a mall (formerly Pitt Plaza, now The Plaza) with a graveyard in the parking lot. Back when the development company bought the land, the original owners stipulated that the family graveyard would remain intact. To this day, there’s a bricked off enclosure with something like a dozen headstones right out in the lot
Kirksville, Missouri here.
Home to Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University) and the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The guy who started Osteopathic Medicine lived here, and some of his relatives STILL live here. I went to high school with one of them.
There’s a SEMI-famous country/blue grass singer from here. Her name is Rhonda Vincent. Her husband runs a restaurant in town.
Also the WWE wrestler, Cane, went to college here and worked at the Golden Corral. I’ve been told that Sheryl Crow also went to college here, but I’m not positive on that one.
That’s about all I can think of!
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Lexington, Kentucky, (hi ArchitectChore) located in the Heart of the Bluegrass, the Horse Capital of the World.
Things people do not know:
The entire state of Kentucky is not Appalachia. We wear shoes, marry outside the family, and never receive mail in a hollow tree stump. 
These things, in fact, do not even characterize Eastern Kentucky, a place a great number of wise, talented and otherwise underappreciated people call home.
Lexington is the home of the highest concentration of thoroughbred horse farms in the world. 75% of all Kentucky Derby winners were foaled in Kentucky.
Lexington was the home of Mary Todd Lincoln, and “The Great Compromiser,” Henry Clay (“I’d rather be right than president.”)
In addition to the University of Kentucky (insert obligatory “go Cats”), Lexington is the home of Transylvania University, the oldest institution of higher education west of the Alleghanies. Its alumni include Stephen Austin, Jefferson Davis, Cassius M. Clay, two vice presidents, 50 senators, 101 representatives, 36 governors, and 34 ambassadors.
Eskippakithiki, slightly east of Lexington, was a permanent Native American settlement, occupied from about 1718 until about 1754. Contrary to popular belief, Kentucky was not solely a “Happy Hunting Ground” for Indians but supported stable permanent populations.
Lots of history here.
Providence, RI is the birth place of the guy who played Coach on Cheers. The hockey arena where the P-Bruins play is officially named the Dunkin’ Donuts Center and if you spend a day in Rhode Island it won’t be hard to know why - there’s a DD on every corner. The local school of art and design has two sports teams: the hockey team is the 'nads (“Go Nads!”) and the basketball team is the balls.
I’m currently in Mercersburg, PA. Small town. Cool things about it:
-President James Buchannan was born here. There is a statue of him in town. The statue is about 5 feet tall. Apparently, he was a short man. (And, no, I know nothing about tp-ing that statue.)
-The parking meters accept pennies. Hehehehe. And, hell, a parking ticket is $2. $2!!! I can afford that. Although I do torment the meter maid…if you see stripes of colored electrical tapeon the meters, that was me!
-Nobody minds if you dance in the town fountain. They laugh about it.
-The best thing about this place is my apartment. The landlord is awesome (and hangs out at the bar), my neighbor is my best friend, I live above a pizza parlor. Across the street is a bar, and two banks. Down the street is another bar. I can get drunk and still crawl home.
I’m originally from Hagerstown, MD. Not much to the town, except strip malls and chain restaurants.
And I went to college in Huntingdon, PA. There is one road in that town with a tree in the middle of it. Rumors say that the tree was the one that the last black man was hung on in the 1900’s but I just think that the construction crew was lazy–instead of getting rid of the tree, they built the road around it. And its the home of Juniata College.
Hmm. I live in Saratoga Springs, which is fairly close to Glens Falls. I’ve only lived here for a couple of months, though, so I have no idea what weird little things there are about this town.
We do have these life-sized, decorated fiberglass (?) horses all over town, though.
Hey! My family moved to the Edson area after the immigrated from Germany. Grandma just moved away only 2 years ago… spent many a weekend there.
I live in Milledgeville, GA.
1- Hometown of Flannery O’Connor. Citizens are divided between the 5% who are still p.o.d that she wrote about them and the 95% who ask “who’s Flannery O’Connor”.
2- Site of the world’s largest abandoned lunatic asylum. (Not being PI; a granite sign still identifies it as STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.) It used to be the world’s largest functioning lunatic asylum, complete with the world’s largest kitchen and largest hot tubs, but most of it was closed and the current Central State Hospital that occupies part of the grounds is, while large, not nearly as impressive.
http://www.abandonedasylum.com/CSH.html
3- Capital of GA from 1803-1868 and one of only two capital cities to have been planned and built from the ground up for that purpose.
4- Hometown of Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & fame)
5- Near the Nuwaubian compound, a black-supremacist UFO cult whose leader fathered more than 100 children and is currently in prison for child molestation.
www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0502/09nuwaubian.html
http://hercules.gcsu.edu/~rviau/nuwaubians.html
6- Lots of anecdotes about the time Sherman occupied it. One church has hoof prints on the floor from when he stabled his horses there; the governor’s mansion where he slept on his bedroll in the marble foyer; a recent jewelry box unearthed when breaking ground for a new dormitory for GA College and State U containing a ladies jewels probably buried to hide them from the Yankees and for some reason never reclaimed.
7- An interesting quasi-ghost story about a Confederate private’s grave. http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-96/05-28-96/a03wn019.htm
8- Nearest town is Eatonton, GA, hometown to the non-sequitur twosome of Joel Chandler Harris (of Uncle Remus fame; the town has the only Uncle Remus Museum in America) and Alice Walker (of COLOR PURPLE fame).
Prior to M’ville I lived in Americus, GA, a small city (20,000 +/-) that has the following distinctions:
1- it’s not uncommon to see President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter pushing their own buggy through Wal-Mart
2- it’s the headquarters of Habitat for Humanity
3- the downtown is dominated by a totally unexpected monstrous Gothic hotel that’s something out of a Stephen King novel http://www.windsor-americus.com
I grew up on a crossroads in Alabama called Weokahatchee, about which there is nothing interesting whatsoever, unless you count the ghost stories (but those you have anywhere). Other places I’ve lived were too large to be interesting.
Baltimore, Maryland …birthplace of Duckpin Bowling , a sport that aparently is not as popular nationwide as it is here. It seems that anyone outside of the Delmarva area have never even heard of it. 
Right now, I live in Ocoee, Florida; “The Center of Good Living.” It’s a comfy, middle-to-upper middle class suburb of Orlando that is more-or-less outside of the collective mindset of those living in the area, since it’s outside the busy I-4 corridor. Not far from my house, there’s a big mall, a funky looking hospital, and a first run movie theater that serves beer and wine at the refreshment stand.
One thing, though … all the black people were chased out of town in 1920.
