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To: Pareto who wrote (18222)	4/8/2000 5:30:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 28311

Pareto, that is wonderful. I agree with sandintoes - you should start a thread for the SI community - there is so much out here.

To: Pareto who wrote (18222)	4/9/2000 2:21:00 PM
From: freedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

OT- Thanks for the history lesson. I am currently living in Holland, Michigan. Holland, MI is home to the national tulip festival which is coming up in the next month. About 100,000 visitors per day for 9 days. The tulip festival as I understand it is also derived from dutch culture. Holland, MI has parades with dutch dancing, street cleaning, town criers, and wooden shoes. I live about 1 mile from the largest opeating windmill in North America. It stands about 300 feet tall. It was brought over from the Netherlands and is still used today to grind flour. As I understand it, windmills were used to help dry the land and reclaim it from the sea in the Netherlands. The town of Holland, MI has an interesting water history as well. There is an inland lake which is about 7 miles long named Lake Macatawa. Dutch settlers dug a trench from Lake Mac to Lake Michigan about 100 years ago to allow for great lakes travelers to make Holland a significant port. Today Holland hosts many different travelers making their way from different locales on Lake Michigan such as Chicago, Milwaukee, and Door County, Wisconsin. They also have a beach rated one of the best in the U.S. as there are many sand dunes around and a famous little red schoolhouse type lighthouse. The downtown has cobblestone streets with heated sidewalks to melt snow and was voted on the best small towns in America a few years ago.