Studebaker "Tree Sign" Indiana

[rb1949]

Besides the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana, there is still another remnant of the company at their old proving grounds in New Carlisle, IN.  But one not visible from the ground, you have to be airborne. It's the name STUDEBAKER, spelled out with trees.  20,000 pine trees were planted in 1937 to accomplish the feat. Rather than steal someone's picture, here's a link to a good shot of the name during WW2.

http://usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/studebakerprovingground.htm

Tree Damage occurred over the years, and in 2015 efforts were made to raise funds to restore the sign and replace many trees. It's on record as the oldest, largest, living sign in the world. The proving grounds are still in use, sold to Bosch in 1966, who donated 188 acres for a county park. It was bought by Navistar in 2015. Ambitious for a current view? Use Google Earth to find Bendix Woods Park, New Carlisle, IN.

 

[Plymouthy Adams]

Indiana is the home of the stand of trees reserved for the preservation of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in service....location, Crane Naval Facility.  One of them been there done that factoids..

[Niel Hoback]

Wow, I'm gonna use that!

[TodFitch]

Indiana is the home of the stand of trees reserved for the preservation of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in service....location, Crane Naval Facility.  One of them been there done that factoids..

Just triggered one of my pet peeves. 

 

"oid" as a suffix means like but not really. An asteroid is something that appears to be a star but isn't. An android is something that appears to be human but isn't, etc. "Factoid" was coined by Norman Mailer to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." He came up with it when writing a book about Marilyn Monroe because there so many "facts" about her that when checked out turned out to be false.

 

I'd much prefer something like "factlet" (for little fact) or, better yet, trivia to the erroneous "factoid".

[Plymouthy Adams]

TodFitch, on 06 Mar 2016 - 12:48 PM, said:

Just triggered one of my pet peeves. 

 

"oid" as a suffix means like but not really. An asteroid is something that appears to be a star but isn't. An android is something that appears to be human but isn't, etc. "Factoid" was coined by Norman Mailer to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." He came up with it when writing a book about Marilyn Monroe because there so many "facts" about her that when checked out turned out to be false.

 

I'd much prefer something like "factlet" (for little fact) or, better yet, trivia to the erroneous "factoid".

thanks for that info Todd.....I did not know that most thought it was in reference to an "accepted truth"...it can be use in both ways...and the fact it was just a short statement of a known fact, tidbit if you will,  was the manner I was using it....I can clearly see where one could misunderstand what I was saying now that you point this out...will have to be more aware of the use of this word here in the future...we have enough double talk here as it is...lol

[Dave72dt]

Just triggered one of my pet peeves. 

 

 

I'd much prefer something like "factlet" (for little fact) or, better yet, trivia to the erroneous "factoid".

Just triggered one of mine.  Can facts come in different sizes?  It is or it isn't to my way of thinking,  I suppose one could expand upon a fact, giving more information about it, each in itself a new fact.

 

Another pet peeve comes  with the phrase " try and".  You can "try to ______ and".

[Plymouthy Adams]

its a small fact that the egg is cracked (means very little in the scheme of life..)

 

it is a larger fact that the egg is cracked and rotten..an event that can ruin you day especially if discovered at breakfast..

 

and for those words we come across in life that have dual meaning, it may boil down to what area you may be living that determines the way the word may be primarily used...

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid

Edited March 7, 2016 by Plymouthy Adams

[rb1949]

Good article about the Indiana trees for 'Old Ironsides'. I didn't know this.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=66594

[Todd B]

Good article about the Indiana trees for 'Old Ironsides'. I didn't know this.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=66594

very cool, thanks for sharing

[Dave72dt]

it is a larger fact that the egg is cracked and rotten..an event that can ruin you day especially if discovered at breakfast..

Two facts that lead to a third fact

[Niel Hoback]

That's a great article, I'm sending  it to a friend of who is a middle school teacher and a fan of Indiana history. I'm sure he will appreciate it also. Thanks for the link.

[Dan Hiebert]

Another tree related....."factoid" (sorry, couldn't help it).  In the 1700's, all Eastern White Pine trees with a circumference of 1 foot or more, within 1 mile of any navigable waterway in "Massachusetts" - which at the time included what became Maine in 1820, were reserved and marked for the Royal Navy to use as masts, due to the lack of suitable trees in Europe (Eastern White Pine grows tall and straight).  That meant most of the trees at the time, which severely impacted colonial lumber production, the revolt against which is credited to be one of the first acts against the Crown that led to the American Revolution. 

[Plymouthy Adams]

Dan Hiebert, on 08 Mar 2016 - 11:58 AM, said:

Another tree related....."factoid" (sorry, couldn't help it).  In the 1700's, all Eastern White Pine trees with a circumference of 1 foot or more, within 1 mile of any navigable waterway in "Massachusetts" - which at the time included what became Maine in 1820, were reserved and marked for the Royal Navy to use as masts, due to the lack of suitable trees in Europe (Eastern White Pine grows tall and straight).  That meant most of the trees at the time, which severely impacted colonial lumber production, the revolt against which is credited to be one of the first acts against the Crown that led to the American Revolution. 

I just last week saw an article on TV about that very subject...most interesting as I had never been made aware of this before.  And you used the word correctly....I'd use the old catch phrase of look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's but it seems I cannot find them online..so I use the Merriam Webster by default...