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Heimhenge said
Yeah, my ancestors were the "von Heims" but they dropped the "von" when they crossed the pond ca. 1850. I hear a lot of people dropped those prefixes, thinking they sounded too aristocratic. They just wanted to get into the melting pot.
So your user name refers to the family gallows?
No, not the family gallows. Long story, but since you ask ... when we built our home we needed to blast some rock out of the side of the hill. So after construction, I had all this cool greenish basalt with milky quartz veins running through it. Used up most of it for landscaping, but there were a few rocks left over. A student suggested I should arrange them like at Stonehenge to align with the Sun at various key times during the year. And so I did. Our homestead eventually became known as Heimhenge among friends and family. And when I started my business, I registered it as Heimhenge Enterprises. Also, (and this is a nice "bonus") when I join a forum, that user name is never already taken.
If you want to see some photos of those Heimhenge rocks, go here: http://www.heimhenge.com/calendar.html
Anyone traveling through Rolla, MO, on Interstate 44 only has to divert a little ways off the interstate to see a half scale reproduction of Stonehenge at the northwest corner of the campus of Missouri University of Science and Technology (http://www.mst.edu ). It blocks were cut with a water jet.
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