Over the weekend, I had two neat Web sites in my daily calendar.
The first, new7wonders.com, is open for your vote on the "New 7 Wonders of Nature" worldwide.
The voting is done in rounds, so you can vote once in this round, then the winners will advance to another round of voting, when you can make your picks from those selections.
I took this picture in Niagara Falls during our big family road trip in the summer of 2007. It's one of the choices for the new natural wonders list, and I happened to like it, so I voted for it.
Anyway, that was from Saturday. Helpfully, the next day's calendar page offered this site, which gives you a virtual tour/computer reconstruction of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one of which is still around today.
There have been tons of attempts to update the list, some of which are documented here.
It got me thinking: What if we had a "Seven Wonders of York County" contest? What would be your nominees? The idea would be to pick things that are unique and that have great value to "our culture," however you define that!
I'll throw out a couple of contenders:
The fairgrounds
The Shoe House
One of the markets
Agree? Disagree? Any other ideas? Throw as many at me as you can think of, and I'll put them all up for vote.
Certainly many of the churches would qualify, the building on the corner that houses the Mission, Central Market and the fairgrounds. The old York High--William Penn Senior High School--that was demolished a couple of years ago. Think of all the thousands of students and their contributions to this area. Many continue to do so.
My thoughts for York's 7 Wonders:
The Golden Plough Tavern/Gates house
Rocky Ridge Park
York Barbell
The Old Courthouse
Old Eastern Market House
The Strand
The Fairgrounds (Main stage and track)
Barnett Bobb log house
New York Wire Company Building (the steam/slide whistle)
Rehmeyers Hollow
Ok, I know I listed 10 places, so Throw those out there and let's see where this goes.