Where in the world!
For my stop on the Indie Tour Blog Hop today, hosted by Parajunkie Blog Tours, I’m supposed
to focus on one town, so I decided to focus on one I know.
I’m from the middle of the country (my house is literally
surrounded by milo fields, a cow pasture, and a dirt road), so since I’m centrally located between about four towns, I can claim a
handful of places as my “hometown!”
But I’m going to talk about the biggest one: Pittsburg (no H
at the end!). Located in the southeast corner of Kansas, it’s a college town
that typically has around a 15,000 population count, depending on the time of
year. During the school year, it can almost double. Ergo, it’s very quiet in
the summer.
We’re big on our PSU football team. Our tailgate parties
before games can rival that of a professional NFL team. And the week before the
first game is called “Paint the Town Red,” where many merchants in the area
decorate their stores in the red and gold school colors.
Pittsburg was built up by a mining community—ergo its name.
It’s surrounded by strip pits, and many of the richer crowd
likes to buy ground along the pits to build their houses on, and make them look
like beach-front property.
I’ve gone swimming plenty of times in one of these pits that
was full of some kind of mineral used in batteries. Probably not the
safest thing to do (and might explain what’s wrong with me!), and it does stain
your swimming clothes awful colors, but it also means fish and other creepy
crawlers can’t survive in there either, so it’s a snake-free time!
Many of the first people to settle in the area were Balkans,
so every Memorial Day Weekend, Pittsburg has a Little Balkans Days Festival,
with a parade and other events.
And the beer of choice here is Natural Light. I have no idea why, but my husband has gone
places far away and ordered a Natural Light with his meal, only for the
waitress to say, “You’re from Pittsburg, aren’t you?”
So, that there is a brief introduction to one of my
hometowns!
What's something unique about your hometown?
What's something unique about your hometown?
Other stops on today's hop are :
Cocktails and Books and
The Obsessive Reader
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