Yes, the town of Riverside, Iowa (about 30 min. south of Iowa City in the
Southeast portion of the state) claims to be the future birthplace of
Kirk. Every year for the past several (at least 5 years, I'd say) during
the town's annual summer festival/parade they tow a 14-foot-long model of
the Enterprise down the parade route. It's not a bad model, though since
it's made of fairly thick metal, like that used in propane tanks, it's
not too detailed.
 
J Hoppe
 
On Sat, 24 Sep 1994, Shawn Levy wrote:
 
> I recall reading last year that a town in (someone help me here) Iowa or
> maybe Indiana had named itself the 'future birthplace of James T. Kirk'
> and had begun to plan tourist-luring sites around this theme.
>
> Somewhere, Jean Baudrillard's fingers are itching....
>
>     Shawn Levy          | "Naked I came, naked I leave the scene,
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