sewNso

jackson michigan had the largest walled prison in the u.s. until it closed , ohhh 6 yrs ago. it was tooo big to air condition. and the prisoners had taken the state to court and won air conditioning. sooo rather than have the cost of air conditioning such a hugeeeee building, they made smaller ones.

bluebird

Sherriff Joe Arpiao in AZ puts prisoners in tents!

Sienna's GiGi

He also makes them wear pink and eat Nutriloaf. Yuk!

Sienna's GiGi

Go Blago! Woot Woot! lol.

SharBear

Rhode Island - the Smallest State.

And we have the best politicians money can buy!


Also, the town where I live is the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart - who painted the famous portrait of George Washington.

White Horse Tavern was built in 1673 and is the oldest operating tavern in the United States is in Newport, RI.

AlwaysQuilting

Aww poor babies. Aren't they in prison to be punished? Prisoners before a/c was invented managed to make it through the summer OK.

AlwaysQuilting

I'm from Toledo, OH too and it used to be (maybe still is) called The Glass Capital of the World because Libby/Owens/Ford factory is there.

dakotamaid

Yup, have Kool-Aid days every summer!

Edie

St. Paul, capitol city of Minnesota started off as a little French village that was visited by fur traders traveling down the Mississippi River in Indian canoes. Its first resident was Pierre Parrant, a French-Canadian voyageur. He was known as Pig's Eye. French-Swiss refugees came down the river seeking homes and landed near Pig's Eye Landing. Homes were built in European peasant style and that became Pig's Eye, Minnesota. Soon the German immigrants came and then the Swedes and Norwegians (they were the Lutherans). The town of Pig's Eye was changed eventually to St. Paul, after St. Paul (the Apostle). We became a very diverse city. We celebrate practically everyone's holiday - Oktoberfest, Svenskarnas Dag, Syttende Mai, Cinco de Mayo, and the ever popular St. Urho's Day (that's when the Finns chased the grasshoppers out of Finland). We had areas around the city, "Little Italy" and "Swede Hollow" (that is where my great aunts lived when they came to St. Paul from Sweden. My great uncle was a Police Officer for the City of St. Paul in the late 1800's/early 1900's.) The Swedes moved out and moved to the East side of St. Paul and then another group moved in and lived there until it was declared unfit for human habitation in 1950 and now it is a City Park. I have a lot of stories of when my aunts lived there - happy, sad, scary and a close knit community.

This is my city, I love it, I always have and I always will.
My husband worked for the City of St. Paul as a laborer for 34 years. We can drive around and he says "I built that", I shoveled those steps, I fixed that alley! He worked the floods in 1964 and 1968. He has put his life into St. Paul, broken bones, Hepatitis, Leukemia, stitches, herniated discs, but we still love St. Paul. We can get angry at it, and if I couldn't live here anymore, where would I go? I would go to the Amana Colonies in Iowa. It is steeped deep in my husband's family as St. Paul is steeped deep in mine!
There is one spot in St. Paul that, to me, is awesome. You can stand in one spot and make a complete 360 degree circle and see every mode of transportation - airport, the river, the railroad tracks, the bike trails, the walking paths, the roads for driving - all of this within about one block. No wonder Pig's Eye loved this area. And I do too. Edie

Glenda m

Oklahoma can claim the shopping cart and the parking meter. Here in my home town..they flimed the bathroom scene from Rain Man in a local motel and most of the vintage cars are from around here, too.