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2011
Laramie, Wyoming. We have some culture, really - we do! The challenge of this just for fun series . . . Can You Find It ?! If you haven't been to or live in Laramie, Wyoming, it won't be easy to do the "Can You Find It?" part of this challenge. However, I hope that far away visitors can stil...
01/23/2011
Laramie, Wyoming. We have some culture, really - we do! The challenge of this just for fun series . . . Can You Find It ?! If you haven't been to or live in Laramie, Wyoming, it won't be easy to do the "Can You Find It?" part of this challenge. However, I hope that far away visitors can stil...
01/23/2011
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While driving down the street , I almost drove past this giant flag without noticing it . . . because it was doing what flags do around here - flapping vigorously in the daily wind. It is only when flags hang limply from their ropes that we stop in our tracks and say, "Hey, the wind isn't blowin...
01/20/2011
Laramie, Wyoming: What Is It? (#1) This wasn't always a pile of rubble - can you guess what it used to be? Hints: -At the time it was built, it did not use electricity. -It is located by the river and the railroad tracks. -Yes, that i...
01/19/2011
(Post #16 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) Trains. The Transcontinental Railroad. The main reason many towns across the mid United Stated exist at all. Naturally, these towns sprung up on both sides of the tracks and early on people just crossed them to get from one side of town to the othe...
01/18/2011
(Post #14 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) The Wyoming Territorial Prison's claim to fame is that it once housed the outlaw Butch Cassidy and other members of his "Hole in the Wall" gang. The prison was finished in 1872 and held prisoners for offenses that ranged from shoplifting to murder. ...
01/16/2011
(Post # 13 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya The unexpected. Another reason I love it around here. When my child's class was scheduled for a field trip to the "Great Stupa", I wonder...
01/15/2011
(Post #12 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) Wildlife. I know we don't have an exclusive claim to wildlife in the city, but I still enjoy the animals that do wander in. These antelope have found themselves in the middle of town because that's where the uncovered grass is. Most years they just...
01/14/2011
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(Post #11 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) History. I hated it in school, but the older I get the more I find the history all around us fascinating. One could never keep up with it all. It isn't too difficult however to keep up with local Laramie history by just visiting places around town....
01/13/2011
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(post #10 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) Predictability. Some claim to be annoyed by the very idea of it, yet who doesn't take at least some comfort in the mundane and expected. Things like the practice emergency sirens that startlingly blare at 10:00 a.m. on the first Saturday of every mo...
01/12/2011
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Brenda Whitman, Live in Laramie Real Estate
Broker/Co-Owner, Laramie, Wyoming