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Date Posted: Saturday, December 24, 03:42:25pm
Author: AurraSing
Author Host/IP: d173-180-97-132.bchsia.telus.net / 173.180.97.132
Subject: That was an amazing slice of history. Now I have some questions for you.
In reply to: Lij 's message, "My Hometown" on Friday, December 23, 01:57:46pm

Is "Homecoming" still a big thing there? We don't really have an equivalent here in Canada, mostly because we don't really have a 'football' culture in our highschools but I've never seen footage of a Homecoming parade before!

I know that the steel mills and Gimbels did not stand the test of time but what big industry did make it to the twenty-first century there?

I grew up in a university city, is your university a thriving concern? I know that in the time period from when this film was made to 2010, my home city quadrupled in size and I always credit the university with helping keep the city alive during the worst of the economic ups and downs...

Are the Nugents still running their dairy farm?

Was this film sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce or ? It looks a lot like a long form of the videos BC makes about communities to help attract skilled immigrants.

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[> [> Yeah..... -- Lij, Saturday, December 24, 05:00:53pm (adsl-99-102-185-216.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.102.185.216)

Homecoming is ubiquitous in this part of the country, not sure about most though.

We didn't really have a steel mill, they were more a steel fabrication plant. And Vincennes Steel is still at work.

We still have one glass plant, Hamilton glass. They make those glass stove-tops. But we've lost several many more.

VU has been around since 1806 I think. It started out as a school run by some Catholic priests and progressed on from there. It was the first Junior College (some claim that was an Illinois school and Jeopardy actually had that Illinois school as an answer about the first Junior College, but I wrote them and corrected them). Lately, VU has added several four-year programs leading to B.A. or B.S. degrees. So it's still going strong.

Vincennes has actually stayed even in population over my lifetime. It might have hit a high of 20,000+ in the 1970s but since then it had been down around 19,000. But there are suburbs which technically aren't in Vincennes that have grown.

The Nugent dairy farm did shut down in the 70s also. So did the McGiffen dairy farm and another one up north near where I live. The Nugent land was on the outskirts of town and proved to me more valuable for development as did the McGiffen farm which was just out Hart Street a little further. The milk/dairy business just up and changed. When I was a kid we got milk and butter from McGiffen delivered to us. We knew a family that ran a dairy herd that provided the McGiffens with milk. I remember going there and having unpasteurized milk fresh out of the cow, not even cooled down. I've never ever had better tasting milk.

I'm not sure exactly how it came about. A Johanningsmeier family was associated with it. And they are mostly a farming family north of Vincennes.

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