they love to be. Mine so happens to be Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tuscaloosa is also called t-town which means title town. Tuscaloosa is called t-town because of the sixteen national championships the football team has won. Tuscaloosa is my favorite place to visit. Some reasons it is my favorite are the University of Alabama is there, everyone is friendly, and the weather is amazing. First and foremost, Tuscaloosa is home to the University of Alabama. The University is one of the many reasons I love it. Alabama
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toy broke, and there was no replacement for it? Well that was the way I felt when my parents told me, “We are moving to Miami”, so close to Christmas. Being a twelve year old born in Argentina, you really don’t want to let go of your roots, the friends you made throughout the years in school, specially your big crazy family, but it was time for a new adventure. On our way to the airport, I took one last look at the town that saw me grow up, the old trees I used to climb, the kids playing with water
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A Race Influenced Town Fredrick Wolpert ETH/125 Pam Alexandroff A Race Influenced Town A loving and peaceful town is hard to come by. But, I am very lucky to live in one of the few. Grand Rapids is a very small town that cares about all of the people that lives and visits our great village. “We are a prodominetly white community but, there are a few different races that live in our community”, says Mayor Judy Keifer. Mayor Keifer has also made it real clear that all people are welcome to our
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The third installment of Homer Hickman’s memoir entitles Sky of Stone, dictates the struggles of a small town boy returning home after experiencing the vastly different environment of higher education. Sonny’s summer of 1961 has a vastly different plan than the one he had imaged, lazing around the hot North Carolina beaches, strolling for girls and having the summer of his life. Instead he finds himself back in Coalwood, West Virginia, doing what he vowed he would never do. As mining coal proves
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Sterkville Seashell Crisis Hello, my names Jayce Schmidt also known as the hero of Sterkville, North Dakota it's quite a small town not many people have heard of us before. Today I'm going to tell you the story of how I became the hero of our small town. It was May 31, 2020 but there was something abnormal about our day, I couldn’t quite tell what it was. But what I did know was that the rain we were having hadn’t happened for quite a long time. Besides that my mail route was going pretty normal
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I traveled a lot. From home to home, town to town, and family to family. Frequently uprooting made times difficult. But, things changed when I was given a very special friend upon entering my last foster home. He was a brown stuffed dog with a purple ribbon tied in a big bow around its neck. His name was Scooter and, once given to me, I carried him everywhere. Even though I am 19, Scooter has been my best companion. When I was five, Scooter could be seen held tightly in my arms, even while I was
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Half of my life I lived in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, where I grew up since the age of 13. My parents found this suburban town to be good, not only due to the education, but also because it was on the United States' top neighborhoods to raise a kid. At first I really did not want to move because it meant moving school, which ultimately meant having to make new friends; while some might see this as a great opportunity, being the shy kid that I was, it was a difficult transition. Another thing that
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In 2002 my family was faced with the a emotional roller coaster life event. My dad was diagnosed with leukemia which is an type of cancer and was given twenty-five percent survival rate. Hearing your dad only had twenty-five survival rate was the scariest thing for a little girl to hear. I was barely six years old. I remember being in Billings, Montana a hearing, my parents tell me my dad had cancer. Everyone in my family was so scared for my dad and not knowing what our future or next day was going
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In my formative years I did not feel the need to be in touch with my culture, the main contributor to this was the fact that I had never actually experienced it fully because my parents moved to a town far away from their traditional homes. We rarely visited my grandparents and when we did it was only for a couple of hours. To me it was almost primitive knowing your mother tongue and I considered people who spoke it too often with contempt. However all this changed drastically in the year 2011. We
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A small town girl from Iowa. No, that is not a very thrilling opening line but it is completely true. Always tell the truth, something that was important to my parents as they were bringing me up. Small towns in the midwest are known for their good old fashioned values, strong political views, and strong religious opinions. Everyone has an opinion in the midwest and most are very stubborn. Children even at a very young age know that some things are just done because that is the way it is, no questions
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