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Post by trent on Dec 9, 2008 21:43:06 GMT -5
I'm sure we have some folks that have deep roots in Tippecanoe Co and the surrounding areas and some that are recent imports for jobs/education and everything in between.
I'd be interested to hear how you all landed in this area. If your family homesteaded here in the 1800s tell us about it. If you are a first semester freshman at Purdue or Ivy Tech, what are you studying and where is home.
For me, I came to Purdue for school from Nebraska where I was born and raised. I followed my sister who was a senior the year I was a freshman. However, the Purdue connection goes back to my dad who was a relatively new teacher in Nebraska in the 60's. Something came across his desk about a Master's in Economic Education at someplace called Purdue (he had to look it up to find out where it was). It sounded like a good idea, so he pursued it. After that program was interrupted by being drafted to serve during Vietnam, he returned and completed his program before returning to teaching in Nebraska. As such, the stage was set.
After I finished my bachelor's, I left to pursue bigger fish, so to speak. Long story short, boy met girl while at Purdue, boy ended up marrying that girl, boy and girl started a family of their own and wanted to be back closer to family, and so the circle brought us right back to Lafayette where we've been deepening our own roots in the area for the last 4 years.
Not sure what the future holds, but the deeper the roots get, the harder they before to pull out. There are certainly worse places to raise a family. Granted, we could really use a few more trout streams around here. I've considered dumping ice into the Wildcat during the summer and stocking some rainbows. That "plan" still needs the kinks worked out however.
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Post by Tippecanoe Fly Fishers Admin on Dec 13, 2008 17:00:56 GMT -5
Well both sides of my family has been around these parts for a long time. The Eller's moved back from Kansas during the dust bowl. The story goes that my great grandmother was tired of her kids waking up from a night's sleep on the front porch with dust drifting around them.
The other side of my family has been around Monticello since before Lake Shaffer or Freeman were there. The foundation to my great grandparents place in now under the water of Lake Shaffer. The family still lives up there and has more then a 1/4 mile of lake front proberty. Both sides of my family have enjoyed the outdoors. Every for the past 9 years we have been going to Grand Rapids, MN with most of the Eller clan. I think it is pretty cool to have 4 generations fishing together.
As far as myself. I grew up in the suburb of Rossville called Pyrmont. Went to Purdue for several years and finally received a degree in computer graphics. Met the girl of my dreams and built a house in the suburbs of Pyrmont. We are expecting a boy at the beging of May. He already has a fishing pole.
I have been involved with the Boy Scout program since I was a Cub Scout and for the last ten or so years, minus one to build my house, I have been the Scoutmaster at Rossville.
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Post by radioflyer on Dec 13, 2008 19:42:33 GMT -5
The Newlons came to the States in 1699 from Mount Mellich, Ireland, settling in Pennsylvania...moving to Indiana in the early 1800s. Most the family settled in Washington Co. Indiana and farmed around Salem.
Granddad moved from Salem to Kokomo and was a HS teacher. My dad hailed from Kokomo and was an engineering student at Purdue. He and my mom lived in married student housing and later in a small house located next to the Ball mansion on 9th St. I was born here in Lafayette but grew up in Kokomo where my dad was an engineer for Chrysler. After four years in the Navy and two degrees from IU I found myself here after working in several radio stations in several other places. My wife is from Crawfordsville, location of my first radio job.
We decided to stay here and spawn.
rf
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Post by reelteacher on Dec 13, 2008 20:15:54 GMT -5
My folks are originally from Benton County. My grandfather, Henrich (Hank) Gustave Tabert, moved here from Germany in 1918 during WW1 with his family. They bought a small farm in Benton Co. and land in Alabama where a few of my relatives still reside. My mother was born in Oxford and my parents met in a Hospital in Lafayette as they were visiting a mutual friend. Dad took me fishing all across the state, but it was the shores of Big Pine Creek where I cast my first fly when I was about 6 years old. I didn't really become an avid or skilled fly fisherman until I was in high school though. I attended Ball State University in Muncie and fished the White river for smallmouth bass. I was fortunate enough to travel to England one summer for a class at York University through BSU. There, I learned that the mighty Carp are king. I learned how they fish for them and how technical Carp fishing really is. Carp tournaments over there are more frequent than Bass tournaments here in the U.S. With my new knowledge, I started fly fishing for Carp in the White river long before it was popular to do so. I read all the literature I could find about these tremendous fish and really began to improve my skills as a fly angler. For about 2 years after that trip, I was so fascinated with carp that is all I fished for! I graduated from BSU in 1999 with a degree in Biology and science education and moved back to Lafayette to begin my teaching career. I met my wife at Christ United Methodist Church while she was attending grad school at Purdue. We spent five years together in Lafayette while she finished her degree. Two years ago, Amy graduated with a Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry, and found employment in Indianapolis. Trying to shorten her long commute, we moved just north of Lebanon where we live today. I teach 8th grade science at Lebanon Middle School. I still fish the Lafayette area frequently and believe that it has some of the most productive fishing waters in Indiana.  |
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Post by flyfishingpastor on Dec 13, 2008 23:20:31 GMT -5
Long story short: My wife, who was a Navy Commander at the time, was transferred to Purdue as the Executive Officer in the NROTC Program/Assoc. Professor of Naval Science about 15 years ago. I was the associate campus minister at the Wesley Foundation here at Purdue during this time. After she retired from the Navy, we considered moving to take advantage of other ministry options for me and other offers for her back east (my family is from WV) and out west (her family is from Idaho) but we decided to stay here. Cathy began working at Purdue in the Undergraduate Studies Program and then moved into Admissions. She's now an associate director in Admissions (I THINK that's her new title). I took another ministry position here in West Lafayette. We raised our daughter here, she attended Purdue and when she and Trent got married and moved to Michigan, we thought about moving again. When they moved back, well, and started having grandbabies; that kind of cemented us here. Don't get me wrong: Heather and Trent can move where they like - but I'm keepin' the babies!  Pat |
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Post by krebsie on Dec 23, 2008 22:44:08 GMT -5
Well, I grew up just a few miles from where I live now. Just south Oxford in Benton county. My parents built the house there shortly after being married 51 years ago. My dad was and is an avid fisherman and is my fishing buddy to this day. He is the one that's responsible for my love of the great outdoors. All my uncles and some of my aunts hunted and trapped and most of them fished. My grandpa Krebs though was the one who just lived and breathed the outdoors. He would spend hours, if you let him, telling stories and sharing advice about how to catch this or kill that, or how to do it better. Man I miss him and his stories of days gone by.
Both of my grandparents raised families in Benton County and most of their children remained in the area. After high school I made a daring move and went to Dallas Texas. There I met my lovely Bride, of 24 years now, and had 2 of our 3 children there. We moved back to Indiana during the Oil shortage of the mid 80s, and #3 came along. We have lived in the area ever since. When our youngest daughter was born a friend of mine came over to see our new baby and brought a fly rod with him, bought it on a whim, thought it would be fun to fish for gill with. He ended up leaving it at my house, and, there's where the sickness began! 22 years later and I still enjoy everything about this thing we call "Fly Fishing"!!
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Post by dave on Dec 24, 2008 18:11:02 GMT -5
I'm not sure how I got here. I woke up one day and PUFF! I'm in the middle of a corn field! No, really, I spent the first 35 years of my life in Pennsylvania. My family moved around from the northwest by Erie to the central part of the state around Johnstown and Altoona, and back again to the northwest to a town called conneaut lake. I've hunted and fished since I was 10 or 12. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever wave a flyrod. It just wasn't done. After 35 years, I decided the grass was greener in North Carolina so I moved my wife and 3 children just outside of Raliegh. This is where I was going to retire from. NO SNOW!!, close to the beach, laid back lifesyle, etc. I was so confident I would never leave North Carolina that I even gave away my ice fishing gear before I left Pa. I wasn't going to need that stuff anymore. This lasted a couple years and then work brought me to Indiana. This is where I got interested in flyfishing. I told a friend that I worked with about a fly shop I saw downtown and we both caught the bug. I go back to Pa. quite a bit to hunt and fish now. My brother lives on a lake so I go back to teach him how to flyfish. We also do pretty well with a spinnig rod. I can use all the "secret" gill flies you guys are willing to share with me.
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Post by radioflyer on Jan 5, 2009 16:14:54 GMT -5
How'd I get to this area? Two words...'alien abduction'. 'nuf said.
rf
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Post by phishphinder on Jan 5, 2009 20:18:55 GMT -5
Divine intervention. My mom said I was a treasure and my dad said OK let's bury it. I think this is when the intervention came in.
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Post by radioflyer on Jan 6, 2009 20:37:17 GMT -5
Phinder...now THAT"S funny!!!
LOL!
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Post by frayedknot on Jan 9, 2009 10:37:13 GMT -5
Against my will, not a huge fan of these cold winters, even though the rest of the year is wonderful..Really Job
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Post by trent on Jan 9, 2009 15:06:43 GMT -5
Frayed:
is this a long term job move, or just temporary?
T-
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Post by Tippecanoe Fly Fishers Admin on Jan 9, 2009 15:35:55 GMT -5
And this winter hasn't really been overly cold. Heck the Wild cat has only froze over once, and only breifly. Must be that global warming I keep hearing about.
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Post by krebsie on Jan 22, 2009 7:34:11 GMT -5
Ok Rick, Scott, and Bob lets hear your story's.
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Post by rstaight on Jan 22, 2009 10:43:06 GMT -5
Well, when I was born my folks lived in Boston (Indiana). I love the look on peoples faces when I first say Boston.
We lived in Troy Ohio for a while and I started school in Tippcity Ohio. We then moved to Eaton Ohio which is about 10-15 minutes from the Indiana line.
Started work at Parker-Hannifin my senior year in high school.
I moved to Richmond Indiana after I meet my wife and lived there until 11 years ago. At which time I was contacted by a "head hunter" and Omni made me an offer that I just couldn't turn down.
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