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Town of Santa Claus

2007-11-25

Hey all

As all of you know that Christmas is about to come and i think everyone starts preparation for Christmas , I am also eagerly waiting for those beautiful winter days. I started my research on it. First of all , I would like share a small script on Santa Claus Town which I got from indystar.

Here it goes like:

"Christmas in Santa Claus Festival,"

Highlighted by Santa's horse-drawn sleigh ride and parade and a free, 15-mile auto tour through the 12 holiday-themed and lighted neighborhoods of Christmas Lake Village, where many of the town's residents live.Santa Claus was located at the intersection of Highway 162 and 245, approximately four miles east of Lincoln City, and seven miles south of Interstate 64 between Louisville, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana.


Settled more than 150 years ago by German immigrants -- the old Santa Claus Cemetery is filled with headstones with names like Bockstahler, Grundhoefer and Schaaf -- the settlement originally was known as Santa Fe (spelled Santa Fee). But when the town of about 50 applied for a post office in 1856, it had to change its name because there already was a Santa Fe, northeast of Kokomo.

Visitors approaching the town from the north (Ind. 162 off I-64) will first notice the massive Holiday World complex and its famous wooden coasters dominating the skyline to the west.
Take a right at the junction of Ind. 162 and Ind. 245 to follow Christmas Boulevard into town. Veer slightly to the left on 245 and travel a tenth of a mile to the town's original 22-foot-high Santa statue, dedicated "to the children of the world" in 1935.


The statue sits on a star-shaped base symbolic of the star of Bethlehem. High on a hill, the 40-ton statue is faded and crumbling. A glossy fiberglass replica of it stands in front of the new Santa Claus Town Hall.


Kevin Klosowski restored and reopened the candy shop and its museum in 2005. The shop claims to have the world's largest selection of candy canes.


The 35-year-old entrepreneur says he "dropped out of corporate America in Chicago" to rebuild and preserve Santa Claus Town, with plans to re-create the Toy Village and Santa's Workshop for baby boomers and a "whole new generation."


"I love it here," he said. "It's quiet. It's safe. It's friendly. I have three kids 7, 5 and 2, and I have a choice of two four-star schools they can go to. I love the family values here. And the cost of living is incredible."

Source: Indystar

 

 

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Life

2007-11-16

  Hey all

I am writing this blog after a long period of time as i was quite busy with my life.....

R eally, i am not able to understand the funda of life. What is it?? for that i would like to share some lines on life with all of you.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

 

I love above thoughts . Hope yo'll also like it..

 

till then

take care

Jenny

 

 

 

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