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June 5, 2005 Living in Logansport brings with it a few drawbacks. The weather is one of them. With all the computer images, Doppler radar, digital images, and whatever else the National Weather Bureau uses in its arsenal, Logansport’s weather will be Logansport’s weather. If the weatherman tells you it’s going be a hot, sunny day, you better take a coat and an umbrella to work with you. “Get out the snowplows it’s going to be seventy degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow.” Logansport, Indiana sits right on the border of the “snow belt.” We occasionally get lake effect snow from Lake Michigan, but it’s hit and miss. My brother lives about twelve miles north of our house and gets tons of snow. Logansport gets an inch…maybe. Tornadoes (knock on wood) generally bypass our little community. There are legends about that. One legend told by old timers in the barbershop is that Tornadoes won’t travel near a place where two rivers intersect, hence, Logansport. Of course, that’s an easy legend to believe (as good as any other I guess), since no tornado has ever hit here. Regional communities have not been so lucky. Monticello, about twenty miles west of here, was ravaged by several tornadoes back in the late sixties. Russiaville, forty miles away, was destroyed by tornadoes back in the seventies (or was it the eighties?). Indiana is not a great place to be in the spring, but not nearly as bad as Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas. Those states and others have been terrorized by the acts of Nature. We have been fortunate in Logansport. Approximately sixteen thousand people populate our community. Once a farm community, Logansport has joined today’s communities in learning to cope with ethnic diversity and I think it is dealing with it healthily. Besides some interethnic tension at our local schools, Logansport is learning to deal with a multilingual environment. It is becoming a multi-cultural city, which in my mind is good. A once very white oriented town, the KKK was big in these parts, has become diverse. I went with a friend of mine to a local medical clinic, predominately visited by Mexicans. The nurses and business office personnel were multilingual and multi-racial. It made me quite proud to see cooperation instead of confrontation. I think our country could learn something by visiting Logansport’s social and medical services. A once arrogant, proud, and mostly white community has learned to bend with the winds of change. Bending is good exercise. ------------ About the author Stan Grimes: My book "Squirrel Mountain Trilogy" is now on sale at http://Pulplessfiction.com Visit: http://stansplace.4t.com You’ll be amazed at how much more lousy I can be. Email: stan.grimes@verizon.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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