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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 3:39:27 PM
The final design for Idaho's state quarter was recently unveiled and boy, are a lot of us disappointed. Some folks are really mad. The perregrine falcon was chosen as the design of our quarter. As much as I love perregrines, I disagree with the choice of having one to represent our state on the quarter. Almost every state has perregrines. New York has perregrines. It's not even our state bird!
There are so many other more interesting symbols that could have been used: Hells Canyon; deeper than the Grand Canyon, Shoshone Falls; higher than Niagara, the appaloosa; developed and bred by the Nez Perce, the Nez Perce, Lewis and Clark, the miners, the lumberjacks, the owl that shut down the lumber industry, I could go on and on.
There is a lot of talk around here about how disappointing this is. Are you happy about the design of your state quarter?
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 6:47:23 PM
:D
Alee
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 6:37:55 PM
Alee I am laughing SO hard right now!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 4:10:58 PM
LOL...Just a little! I had to figure out what you meant! I immediatly was picturing some old hermit... and then you said he fell off the mountian... so it gave me pause! LOL
Alee
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 4:06:48 PM
Thanks for posting that link. It sound kind of funny "the man fell off the mountain"!!!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 2:29:13 PM
Julie- I had to google "New Hampshire" and "Old Man on the Mountain" to figure out what you meant! LOL I had never heard of him before. Isn't it amazing to "see" things in the rocks? On the Cloud Peak Skyway (highway climbing the Cloud Peak mountain in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming) there is a rock that looks like a Collie watching over the whole Big Horn Basin. Maybe in September if we go up to the mountains I will remember and take a picture. :)
Here are the link I found about the Old Man On the Mountain
http://www.franconianotchstatepark.com/oldman.html
Alee
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 1:58:36 PM
Oh I also like New Hampshires because it features the man on the mountain. Shortly after the relaease of the quarter the man actually fell off the mountain!!! SO SAD! So it is neat that is is forevor commemorated on the quarter.
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 1:57:27 PM
I live in Arkansas and I don't really like the quarter. It has the big diamond on it which they are also now putting on the liscence plate. I know we are the ONLY state with an active diamond mine but I think the state is much better known for other things. But then again I guess it wouldn't be cool to put a meth junkie on the quater. LOL
I am from Vermont and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the quarter. I personally think it is the BEST of all of the ones that have come out!
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| Ronna |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 12:36:03 PM
Nevada's quarter has mustangs (the horse, not the brothel), sagebrush and the sun coming over the mountains. Could have been much worse...like a slot machine or area 51.
Idaho could have used a potato, or isn't that part of the state slogan anymore?
Sometimes makes one wonder what the "powers that be" use for brains. Maybe not enough people vote and it's swayed by some special interest group.
Ronna...born in NV and proud of it :) |
| smoothiejuice |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 10:53:26 PM
Well, we do more than race cars in Indiana, but according to our quarter, that is all we do!! Mighty redneck..oh well, I like car racing as much as the average person, but what state does not race cars? |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 24 2007 : 4:19:51 PM
Kaylyn-
I agree! Let me know if you ever plan on going! Maybe we could have a get together! I would love yet another reason to visit home! :p
Alee
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| Vintage Redhead |
Posted - Jun 24 2007 : 3:30:30 PM
Wyoming is one of the *most* beautiful states I have ever been to. SO much variety, so many things to do, *SO* gorgeous! I can't wait to get back some day... ~ K
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 8:31:07 PM
Hi Lisa-
Oh yes! It is a big community event. Very beautiful! Wyoming has lots of fun "undiscovered" things that mostly the locals know about. We also host Frontier Days which is the "Daddy" of all Rodeos. Lots of fun stuff!
Alee
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 7:44:19 PM
Wow, Alee, I really like the "Wedding of the Waters" thing. Do they allow spectators? I'd like to see that ceremony some day. The dinosaur stuff is really cool, too. I knew Utah had a lot of fossils and dinosaur bones and stuff, because I lived there for a while. But I didn't know Wyoming was THE dinosaur state. I'll have to do more exploring over there.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 6:48:07 PM
Lets see here, information about the State of Wyoming:
Wyoming was the first state to let Women vote.
Our state dinosaur is the Triceratops.
Our state fossil is the Knightia (not sure what it looks like! *blush*)
Our state mammal is the Bison, and the bird is the meadowlark.
We hold the majority of Yellowstone park which was the first National Park, designated so in 1872
We have Devil's Tower which was designated the first National Monument in 1906
We have the largest coal mine in the United States.
JC Penny was created in Wyoming.
The term "Dude" as in "Dude Ranch" was coined in Wyoming.
The "Flicka" books were based upon real life events in Wyoming.
The Red Desert in Southern Wyoming has no drainage to the east or west. The Continental divide splits and goes around the desert.
We have a river named the Big Horn River and the Wind River. They have determined a specific point where it changes names and each year the Native Americans hold a "Wedding of the Waters" ceremony.
Wyoming is one of the most Fossil rich states in the union. We are still discovering dinosaurs and have recently discovered the world's most complete brontosaurus skeleton.
Antelope outnumber people!
Alee
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 6:20:23 PM
Montana, my other home has a good one too - very representative again. |
| babysmama |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 6:08:59 PM
Iowa's quarter has something to do with education and a schoolhouse. I don't get it it...how does that represent our state?! What about corn or hogs, since we produce the majority of it here in Iowa? I think that there could be a lot of better choices.
-Elizabeth |
| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 5:35:46 PM
I think Washington's quarter is really representative of the state. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 4:30:25 PM
As far as I know, Marybeth, it is a done deal. Sad, huh? But you gals are sure educating. I never knew so much about IL. I've driven through it on I80 (scary going by Chicago during rush hour) but never really knew anything about it. I'd like to see more info on other states here. Anybody else?
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| Vintage Redhead |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 1:47:49 PM
I'm disappointed in the choice for IL - Abraham Lincoln with the Chicago skyline over his left shoulder and a grain farm over his right. Sorry, but Lincoln is already on the $5 bill and the penny. And as much as I *love* Chicago, it is not the "...defining community..." for many Illinoisans. Illinois has *SO* many icons of historical importance - not just Abe Lincoln, not just Chicago, and not just corn & soybeans!
Why not put "Superman" on the quarter to celebrate the lesser-known community of Metropolis?
What about Starved Rock, one of the largest natural rock formations in the state? A Native American tribe of Illiniwek were *quite literally* starved to death by the Pottawatomi and Ottawa tribes in retribution for the killing of an Ottawa chieftain.
Why not the John G. Shedd Aquariam - to celebrate it as the first public-access acquarium in the United States?
How about Ronald Reagan...40th President, born in the central Illinois town of Tampico and raised in the northwestern community of Dixon prior to his HS graduation?
How about Fermilab in Batavia, which houses one of the largest superconducting supercolliders and has been home to many of the world's pre-eminent physicists for nearly 50 years?
The "Ice Cream Sundae" was invented in Evanston, IL - at a Walgreen's soda fountain just a short distance from Northwestern University - nearly 120 years ago.
Dare I suggest Wrigley Field? One of two last remaining "...old school..." baseball stadiums in the US (the other is Fenway Park in Boston, BTW.)
A Chicago Bears uniform...after all, they were originally a downstate team (Springfield? Bloomington? I can't remember exactly where...though they've always been in IL.)
Ray Koch opened the first "modern-day" McDonald's in 1955 in Des Plaines. I say "modern day" because while he is celebrated for being the founder, he truly wasn't. Earlier franchises had been sold by the McDonald brothers of California. A milk-shake machine Koch had sold them helped boost sales at their new-fangled walk-up restaurant. (Though I must admit...the "Golden Arches" on a quarter would just be *WRONG*!!)
Any of the locks built and maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River? Of course, we'd have to share notoriety for that with MN, WI, IA, MO, AR, MS, and LA.
Oh yeah...we're more than just Honest Abe and The Windy City and agriculture.
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 12:15:55 PM
I guess I never keep a quarter long enough to know what they look like. I use them in the morning when I stop for coffee/cappucino on the way to work. But when I went online and looked at Kentucky's quarter, I found it sort of sad and ironic that Federal Hill is pictured on it. Stephen Foster stayed there(not lived there) when he wrote 'My Old Kentucky Home', which is our state song. But the poor guy died at the age of 30 in a flophouse in the Bowery in NYC with only 38 cents in his pocket....so he didn't even have much more than a quarter for all his life's work. Okay, now I'm sad. :(
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 09:56:10 AM
Oh, woops. It does. I have never gotten one, though!
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 09:55:02 AM
I think I remember Kentucky coming out, but it didn't have a horse on it, so I don't think I cared :)
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| blueroses |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 09:51:17 AM
Lisa,
I agree with you. There could've been so many better representations for Idaho! I know they have the Birds of Prey refuge down in southern Idaho, but gee - we really didn't get a good quarter at all!!
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 06:55:34 AM
AZ's isn't out yet but I did vote. There were 4-6 designs to choose from - one of the Navajo Code Talkers - which is cool but doesn't represent the whole State, one with the Grand Canyon and a Saguaro, things like that. I liked all the designs they had to vote from.
I agree about Idaho's though it's kinda plain and doesn't tell me anything about the state if I'm not from there if you kwim. Utah's has the Golden Spike and two trains on it for the transcontinental railroad.
Holly
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 8:21:21 PM
Utah's isn't out yet..it will be this year though.
Jenny in Utah
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