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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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  • Nice idea John.  Here is a quick tour of my little part of the world, San Antonio, Texas.  We are still keeping to ourselves at this time (trying to avoid the next wave of the virus), so this will be a pictures from the recent past.  We are located just outside the city limits of San Antonio, on the north side of the city.  One of the things that we love in this area is the variety of nature that surrounds us (and visits us) here.

     

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    This just a few of the visitors that stop by to see us from time to time.

     

    My wife and I enjoy nature and San Antonio has several parks (more than 240) that we love to visit. We are active in both the Master Gardner and Master Naturalist programs, and work with some of the parks.  Here a a few of our activities:

     

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    In the first picture is one of our favorite nature parks, located on the north side of town.  Here is a restoration project that we worked on to restore the ecosystem to a more natural state, which in this case in a Savanna habitat.  Here we cut and cleared several trees in the area to allow the grass and scrubs to thrive (this was about one year after our last cutting).  The second picture is a gardening program that my wife runs (and I help at) that allows families to work a plot and grow and harvest vegetables.  This program is for families of home schooled children, who come out once a week for a twelve weeks.  We have 20 plots and we run two sessions a year.  The park was part of an old dairy farm that was gift to the city, there is a small dairy barn and some historic buildings.

     

    San Antonio is a large city (465 sq. miles), with a population of 1.493 million people.  The area is made up of a large downtown area, and a sprawling mixed of open and residential areas.  This sunset view from the north side, looking south towards the heart of the city barely shows any of the downtown region:

     

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    There are a lot of iconic sites in the city like 'The Alamo' and missions that were parts of the early settlements, but one of the more touristy attractions of the city is the 'River Walk'.  Here is a very colorful look at the River Walk:

     

     

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    The River walk is a collection of hotel and restaurants that border a portion of the San Antonio river as it winds through the downtown.  The actual river (sourced from springs from a large aquifer) is diverted under the city, with only a small portion is at the surface.  This area suffered many floodings and was reworked by the army corp of engineers, which later became the river walk that we see here.  They operate barges (seen here passing below a walkway) and provide tours and taxi services.

     

    Enjoy!

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  • Nice idea John.  Here is a quick tour of my little part of the world, San Antonio, Texas.  We are still keeping to ourselves at this time (trying to avoid the next wave of the virus), so this will be a pictures from the recent past.  We are located just outside the city limits of San Antonio, on the north side of the city.  One of the things that we love in this area is the variety of nature that surrounds us (and visits us) here.

     

    image

    This just a few of the visitors that stop by to see us from time to time.

     

    My wife and I enjoy nature and San Antonio has several parks (more than 240) that we love to visit. We are active in both the Master Gardner and Master Naturalist programs, and work with some of the parks.  Here a a few of our activities:

     

    image

    In the first picture is one of our favorite nature parks, located on the north side of town.  Here is a restoration project that we worked on to restore the ecosystem to a more natural state, which in this case in a Savanna habitat.  Here we cut and cleared several trees in the area to allow the grass and scrubs to thrive (this was about one year after our last cutting).  The second picture is a gardening program that my wife runs (and I help at) that allows families to work a plot and grow and harvest vegetables.  This program is for families of home schooled children, who come out once a week for a twelve weeks.  We have 20 plots and we run two sessions a year.  The park was part of an old dairy farm that was gift to the city, there is a small dairy barn and some historic buildings.

     

    San Antonio is a large city (465 sq. miles), with a population of 1.493 million people.  The area is made up of a large downtown area, and a sprawling mixed of open and residential areas.  This sunset view from the north side, looking south towards the heart of the city barely shows any of the downtown region:

     

      image

     

    There are a lot of iconic sites in the city like 'The Alamo' and missions that were parts of the early settlements, but one of the more touristy attractions of the city is the 'River Walk'.  Here is a very colorful look at the River Walk:

     

     

    image

    The River walk is a collection of hotel and restaurants that border a portion of the San Antonio river as it winds through the downtown.  The actual river (sourced from springs from a large aquifer) is diverted under the city, with only a small portion is at the surface.  This area suffered many floodings and was reworked by the army corp of engineers, which later became the river walk that we see here.  They operate barges (seen here passing below a walkway) and provide tours and taxi services.

     

    Enjoy!

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