re: Interesting facts about places you've lived

Baton Rouge has 46 homicides in 7 months.

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The pioneering video game Doom was created in Shreveport.

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I didnt know that.

Shreveport is also home to the very first Shriners Hospital for Children

During World War I, Germantown changed it's name to Nashoba because of... well... Germans.

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Boston is best known for dumping tea and having the largest amount of white trash with disposable income per capita

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Boston is known for creating wicked gas with all those baked beans.

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During World War I, Germantown changed it's name to Nashoba because of... well... Germans.

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During the Civil War, Grant was almost captured by Confederate spies in Collierville. One of the landowning families alerted Union troops that there was a group of Confederates hiding near Nonconnah Creek waiting to ambush and capture him. Always wonder which of the few old time landowning families in Collierville it was

Big Sky Montana was the site of a kidnapping of an Olympic- hopeful female skier. In the mid 80's, a father and son living in the mountains, kidnapped a girl with the purpose of being a wife to both of them (.Insert 'kinky gif').

While I was up there, a cult named CUT, Church Universal Triumphant, set up shop just north of Yellowstone Park, near Gardiner, Montana. They believed the end of the world shite, had a huge underground bunker, stashed a hug e arsenal of guns, and had training exercises, in preparing for Armageddon.

Oh, meanwhile northwest of Big Sky and Yellowstone, was the Unabomber.

A collapsed building with dead bodies hanging out of it sat around for a year until politicians solidified all their kickbacks for demo.

Three of the greatest influencers of 20th century popular music had ties to Shreveport. Hank Williams and Elvis Presley gained stardom as members of KWKH's Louisiana Hayride program held at th Municipal Auditorium. Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter was born in nearby Mooringsport and played on the streets of the St. Paul Bottoms, the area behind the downtown Methodist Church. which was a red-light district in the early 1900s.

George Harrison once stated “If there was no Lead Belly, there would have been no Lonnie Donegan (a British skiffle singer); no Lonnie Donegan, no Beatles. Therefore no Lead Belly, no Beatles.”

Piggott, Arkansas -

Earnest Hemingway was married to a lady from Piggott. He wrote part of "A Farewell to Arms" in a little barn studio just a block away from where my folks still live.

A pre-Mayberry Andy Griffith along with Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, & Walter Matthau filmed "A Face In the Crowd" in Piggott.

Gaylon Lawrence Sr who owned upwards of 165,000 acres and the worlds largest privately owned HVAC distributor along with 5 banks and the entire zip code of Wilson, AR was from Piggott.

The original street names of the largest neighborhood in my hometown, as well as my hometown, were named after Louisiana plantations. (Ormond and Destrehan)