After being swamped with people wanting to know more about my lovely little town of Winona, I worked on it. The picture above is snivved from Terraserver.com. It's a neat little site that has archived a bevy of photos taken from high altitude aircraft and satellite imagery. Most of these photos are about a decade out of date, but when you think about it, does that matter?
Back to Winona...
Here's a brief tour...
1. Winona High School. On the corner of Barton Street and Lewis Road lies my old school. As my friends will point out, I spent the better half of my teens here. So I stayed an extra year, get over it! Unfortunately, the school board, in their esteemed wisdom, decided that my school wasn't needed anymore so, without so much as a 'by your leave', Winona hasn't had a high school for well over 12 years. Not that I'm bitter about it or anything...
2. Winona Park. Yes, this is where the world famous Winona Peach Festival takes place, usually during the last full weekend in August. A little known fact is the Peach Festival is as old as me, we both 'arrived' in 1967. Not that you really needed to know that...
3. The Niagara Escarpment. Fabulous Photos in my Photo Album have covered a mere spec of how great this natural wonder is. The best bit is that it's a hop, skip and a jump away from my front door...
4. E. D. Smith & Sons. Winona's oldest factory. Hey, they make ketchup! (and a variety of other things like jams, pie fillings and stuff... did I mention ketchup?)
5. Fruitland Christian Reformed Church. The church I belong to. My attendance at said church is another matter entirely...
6. Where I broke a torsion bar on one 1983 Honda Accord Sedan (brown, presumably with Supertramp playing in the cassette deck). The one part of a car that you are never suppose to break (so my mechanic tells me)... I broke it. Note in this picture there is a road there. Note that my entire life there was always a road there. One day, in January, late at night, driving home from what I'm sure was a Young People event, turned onto the supposed road... turned out that a construciton crew removed said road to build a survey--didn't notify me. My car ended up frame deep in water and mud; couldn't get it out. That night it went down to -26 degrees (don't hold me to that temperature... it was cold, that's all you have to know) causing the water and muck to freeze. The next day I ask the construction crew to bring over one of their implements o' destruction to help get my car out. "What's it worth to ya", says the foreman... So it costed me a 2-4 of Canadian. Hooked up chains from my little Honda to a 25 tonne 'Dozer. Okay, I wasn't thinking (if I ever did). The 'dozer pulled the car out, but the tires stayed frozen in the ice. That's gotta hurt. Okay, so it was one tire, not all four, that stayed stuck in the ice. The point is that I broke the torsion bar. End of story.
Winona is a great place to live. What more needs to be said?
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