Montpelier Indiana

I'm Ronnie Williams and the community that I chose to

study was Mount Peale earlier indiana.

Um I chose this community because I'm not familiar with

rural communities.

So I just research Mountain Earlier I just researched rural

communities in indiana um on google and Mount Clear was

one of the communities and I just I chose that

community. Um mount clear is located in Boone County and

it has, its population size is roughly around 1700 people.

Yeah one of the major events organizations that I found

in this town was the Mountain Earlier jamboree.

Um I found this town on their facebook community group

that was called Mountain Earlier Jamboree.

I've noticed that um that a lot of this communication

is very interactive online through social media specifically like I've

said facebook, I've saw that there's a lot of diversity

in this community in terms of age.

So there's a lot of teenagers and young people and

adults as well who interact um on this facebook group

um the Montpellier Gymboree is essentially a huge party and

Mount P earlier indiana they have things like pork eating,

context contests concerts.

Originally, well recently they had a concert group named saliva

who I'm not too, I'm not familiar with it all

but a lot of people seemed really excited that they

were coming through.

They were in attendance during this jamboree as well.

Um they also have amusement amusement park rides.

So like a ferris wheel as well during this community

group. Um and as I previously mentioned about this group.

There are, there is diversity in terms of age and

how everyone interacts with each other and I just thought

that this was a strength for this community because it

just, it just brings out the entire town no matter

what age you are in the community, the entire town

is really Fascinated and really interested in this event that

they host yearly.

It was actually their 75th annual um event that they

had further mount clear jamboree.

I also saw with this that there were a lot

of, there are a lot of residents or there were

a lot of people who are born in Montpellier but

moved to specifically Indianapolis.

I saw a lot of people saying, hey I'm traveling

from Indianapolis where rose should I take what?

Um streets are being blocked off and just asking questions

about the event and there are a lot of people

that are really helpful and just really excited for them

to just come back and enjoy this time and just

to be with family, friends and I thought that was

very interesting because I felt like that related to a

lot of the rural brain drain that we had talked

about in class um and just seeing that seeing the

large amount of people who have moved away um and

who come back just for events.

That was very interesting to see.

Yeah mm The second I would say community, the second

event or organization that I've noticed with mountain earlier was

the community, it was another community group on facebook and

it was just titled Mount chillier community group.

Um, and there, and with this community group, there's a

lot of mix.

Um, a lot of different ages in this group as

well. And I saw that with this community group, it

had 1000 members.

Um, and I thought that was pretty interesting given that

the town, the population is roughly 1700 people.

Um, but this town had 1000 active members on there

and it was, it's a community group just for miscellaneous

things that's happening within the community.

I saw that a lot of the interactions that I've

seen was just people saying, hey, have you seen is

your water bill high this month and a lot of

people winter, I can say yes, unusually high.

Some people offer suggestions as to why a tie or

what they need to do to combat that.

And I thought it was really interesting that this community

group really comes together and just just helps each other

out. Um, with their bills.

I've seen that even if they had animals that were

lost, the community goes out and search for these animals

and we'll post like, hey, I saw this person on

Washington street or this is where I last saw this

dog and I thought it was very interesting that this

was just a group for everybody to come together and

say, hey, do you notice what's going on in the

community or do you not.

Um, and I've also found that in this community group,

I kept saying one in particular, this older woman who

was just talking about yard sales um, which leads me

to my next event that I thought was, that seems

to be a major event in mountain earlier.

Um, and it was yard sales so well as I've

stated before, there was just this older woman who talked

about yard sales a lot.

Um, in these community groups.

I even found her in the jamboree as well.

And so I looked up Mount Hillyer yard sales on

facebook to see like what was, why is it so

important that these people are having these yard sales because

a lot of people would interact with her um, regarding

the yard sales that ended up finding out that she

has a lot of presence in this community.

Um, and she's an older woman and she's very helpful

and I saw that they mount clear had a facebook

group specifically for yard sales.

Um, and it had 1000 active members on there.

And there was a lot of people just saying, hey,

I'm having this yard sale this day.

I'm selling these things, showing pictures of the things that

they were selling.

And I saw even in the pictures that this seems

to be a community gathering throughout the week.

So it seems like a trip that you just take

your family to go to.

Like, hey, let's go to this person is happening, there

are still let's go to this person, let's go to

this next person's house.

Um and I saw that it it seems like it's

just, it brings the community together just throughout the week.

Um a lot of people would just go to people

different houses and just purchase or even look at the

things that they have to sell and in particular that

one woman, she is very helpful in the community and

that um she uses her presence to allow others to

come to her home and sell different items as well

if they need to.

So I thought that was really interesting in the strength

of this community that just shows how supportive everyone is

of each other and how helpful this community is.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Mhm.

The next overall organization that I saw was on another

facebook community group um titled Old Mount earlier indiana.

And I thought it was interesting because I started to

see a lot of um facts and this wasn't the

only community group but it was the largest community group

that had 1000 members on it and it was just

a community group that talked about old facts of Mount

chillier indiana and I've learned from this community group.

I personally learned about the 1924 bombing of the Columbia

Hotel. I learned that this is a huge historical event,

a huge um yeah, huge historical event that happened in

Montpellier um that a lot of the older generation talk

about in this community.

That was the one thing that I think that there

was a lot of older people in these communities that

we're talking about different conspiracy theories and one was being

that there were actually a few members, a few workers

there who contributed to this bombing, because they found it

interesting that they all went on strike.

A couple of the members went on strike a couple

of days before the bombing, so that's been a lot

of talking within that community.

Um but I did notice that it is majority the

older people in this community and they don't seem to

um accepting of the younger generations opinions about what actually

happened um with that in different conspiracy theories.

Mhm. Mhm.

And then the last major event that I've researched with

the Montpellier Motor speedway um this is a, this is

a an event that happens from May to october and

it is weekly.

Um and they have saturday night racing's and I saw

that this, out of all the things that I've mentioned

is the hugest, it's the largest um community event in

Mount pearl Ear.

This I saw, I did research on the Mount Clear

Motor speedway community group on facebook and also amount Clear

speedway dot com, I saw that this facebook group has

over 5000 subscribers and a lot more interaction on this

Facebook group.

There were a lot of people who were just excited

to come, a lot of people from out of town

come um and I also saw that it was just

a huge gathering on the weekends like after work people

will go here and just hang out and just commute

and just have a great time.

I saw that a lot of people like to camp

out at this place.

So this event allows people to bring their trailer homes

there and just sit and camp out for the weekend

just so they can have an enjoyable weekend with family

and friends.

Um and it's a very diverse age group.

I saw I've seen Children there, I am along with

their family and friends so it seems like there's a

huge sense of community and pride with the Mount Polley

Air motor speedway because they're not only um Mhm.

It doesn't only just hope people from Mount clear but

also in Boone County in general, a lot of people

come out and just have a great time during this

time. Mhm.

So my overall impression of this community is that this

community has a very homey feeling.

Um it's just a very welcoming community from what I

gathered from my research, I just it seems very welcoming

given that even with a lot of the people who

have moved away and I've come back there just oh

they're just accepted and welcomed back with open arms and

um they just have a great time when they come

back and just to see their family and friends and

a lot of the people are very accepting of them

of coming back.

Um and just very welcoming and home field in terms

of like a yard sale and just that community, being

able to come to each other's homes and just talk

and socialize during yard sales gave me a really homey

feel. I thought that was very interesting that this community

has a sense of pride when it comes to his

to the history of the community.

Thought that was very interesting because I don't get to

see a lot of communities really talk about the pride

and joy of the town that they live in.

They usually talk about the major city but not more

so the small town that they live in saw that

that was very interesting community and I honestly would like

to even go to the motor speedway event just because

it looks like everyone has a great time and it

looks like a really fun event just seeing people just

write to each other.

Um so I really enjoyed researching this community.

Thank you

Montpelier Indiana

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