It's home to the largest hand dug well, and a large meteorite. It was hit yesterday by a tornado and 95% of the town is gone. It was the coolest little town too. My grandpa's brother lived there, and my dad's cousin lived near there. There are places close by where you could stop on the side of the road and find crystals in the ditches. The well was so cool to go down into (of course it's still there...under rubble). My dad's cousin managed a grain elevator in Brenham (home to the large 1000-pound pallasite meteor) and we would climb the "Kansas Mountain" (there's a cool children's book about elevators called Climbing Kansas Mountains) and you could see for miles and miles.
Here's a link to the story: http://www.kansas.com
Here's a link to the town's website: http://www.bigwell.org
As crazy/weird as it sounds, this is the time of year I get homesick....tornado season!!! (And wheat harvest is around the corner too, so that's part of the reason also.)
