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I got the idea for this Blog from . Since the Covid 19 has kept us from getting out and traveling I thought it might be fun to give you a short tour of my home town Chippewa Falls Wisconsin USA and to invite you to add your own tour of your home town in the comments. I am suggesting that we make it a short tour with six pictures or less. If you can highlight an industry that relates to electronics all the better. Background information and history is always appreciated.

 

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Very close to Chippewa Falls is Lake Wissota. If you have ever watched the movie "Titanic" this lake was reference by the hero Jack as the place where he and his grandfather went ice fishing. Unfortunately this was an anachronism as Jack and the Titanic sank in 1912 and the Lake didn't fill with water behind a newly constructed hydroelectric dam until 1917. The Lake draws lots of tourists and the local people use it for fishing, boating, water skiing, swimming, and in the winter they do indeed do a lot of ice fishing.

 

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In the early 1960s native son Seymour Cray returned to Chippewa Falls to develop the first Super Computer. In its heyday Cray had dozens of research and manufacturing facilities in Chippewa Falls. Today this is the only building that remains. The rest are now filled with other companies such as HP, TTM Technologies, and a host of small specialized companies.

 

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This is the Chippewa Falls version of Notre Dame Church. It is wife Millies' church and it has a good view of the city in the Winter time when there are no leaves. I went up to the Church to take a picture of the city for you but there were so many leaves that all one could see was forest. Therefore not to waste the moment I took a picture of the church.

 

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No it's not about the roses. In the background you will see the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company which has been putting Chippewa Falls on the map for the last 153 years. While I am not a beer aficionado myself I have heard that it is a great brew and they like to specialize in many seasonal products. They also have a nice hospitality center and give brewery tours when things aren't locked down by the Corona Virus.

 

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Chippewa Falls was originally in the early 1800s a lumber town with saw mills to process the White Pine timber that was being harvested and floated down the Chippewa River. One of the people who became wealthy in this enterprise was William Irvine. Part of his legacy to the area was the donation of a beautiful section of land which is now known as Irvine Park. There are hiking trails, a very nice Zoo, picnic areas, play equipment for the children, and this water falls called Glen Loc. It is actually an abandoned mill dam with the water overflowing the top.

 

There you have a 5 picture overview of my home town.

 

Please take some pictures and share what is interesting and beautiful about where you live in a comment to this blog. I look forward to touring your home town.

 

John

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  • I live in Milton Keynes, often referred to by outsiders as 'a concrete jungle' and 'home of the concrete cows' and 'home of the roundabouts' - it's definitely the latter two, but definitely not a concrete jungle. 

     

    In 2017, it was reported that there are 22million trees and shrubs in MK which is around 100 for every resident.  If I had to estimate it, I would put the overall area of the town at 34sq miles (89 sq kilometres) and I live within spitting distance of the centre of town.  In fact, the wife and I often go for long walks around the town circling back to home - 6 to 9 miles - and never have to leave what feels like countryside.  Our garden has been home to deer, foxes, herons, woodpeckers and numerous other birds and just on the other side of the back fence is the Grand Union Canal.  We've even had a herd of cows locked in to our front garden by the Parks Trust when they escaped from a nearby field - what a mess to come home to the day after getting married!

     

    All these pictures were taken within 0.5 miles of my house so within what might be classed the bounds of the town centre (despite many applications, it's never yet been granted city status.)

     

    Gridlock on the Grand Union canal:

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    We have art trails around the parkland and this is one example:

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    Home to the Peace Pagoda, a Buddhist monument.  You get an idea of what the town is actually like by looking into the distance across the trees (10's of thousands of people live amongst those!):

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    This path leads directly to the town centre less than a mile in the distance:

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    Although it's at night, you can get a feel for what the town is like.  This is looking across a lake to a pub in the foreground; the lit up building in the background is the theatre and the white blob, tower and wheel are from a fun fair that has set up.

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    And of course we have our old churches still.  Milton Keynes was developed through the 1970's and 1980's and subsumed smaller villages into its larger area so we have areas that still retain that village feel.

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    You can probably tell I'm proud to live here!

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  • I live in Milton Keynes, often referred to by outsiders as 'a concrete jungle' and 'home of the concrete cows' and 'home of the roundabouts' - it's definitely the latter two, but definitely not a concrete jungle. 

     

    In 2017, it was reported that there are 22million trees and shrubs in MK which is around 100 for every resident.  If I had to estimate it, I would put the overall area of the town at 34sq miles (89 sq kilometres) and I live within spitting distance of the centre of town.  In fact, the wife and I often go for long walks around the town circling back to home - 6 to 9 miles - and never have to leave what feels like countryside.  Our garden has been home to deer, foxes, herons, woodpeckers and numerous other birds and just on the other side of the back fence is the Grand Union Canal.  We've even had a herd of cows locked in to our front garden by the Parks Trust when they escaped from a nearby field - what a mess to come home to the day after getting married!

     

    All these pictures were taken within 0.5 miles of my house so within what might be classed the bounds of the town centre (despite many applications, it's never yet been granted city status.)

     

    Gridlock on the Grand Union canal:

    image

     

    We have art trails around the parkland and this is one example:

    image

     

    Home to the Peace Pagoda, a Buddhist monument.  You get an idea of what the town is actually like by looking into the distance across the trees (10's of thousands of people live amongst those!):

    image

     

    This path leads directly to the town centre less than a mile in the distance:

    image

     

    Although it's at night, you can get a feel for what the town is like.  This is looking across a lake to a pub in the foreground; the lit up building in the background is the theatre and the white blob, tower and wheel are from a fun fair that has set up.

    image

     

    And of course we have our old churches still.  Milton Keynes was developed through the 1970's and 1980's and subsumed smaller villages into its larger area so we have areas that still retain that village feel.

    image

     

    You can probably tell I'm proud to live here!

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