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Descriptive Essay About Beach Park

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I would never have thought that a small park in my hometown would mean so much to me. Beach Park is little more than a peninsula of grass and sand a few blocks south of the small Scandinavian downtown of Lindstrom, Minnesota. The park is located on a peninsula in South Lindstrom Lake. The locals who I waited on at our local café, The Swedish Inn, told me that the park had been the first location of our town’s cemetery. They said that the coffins were dug up when the water levels started rising and the land was made into a park. The current park includes a grassy area, children’s playground, a fishing pier, and a sandy beach. I never really went there much as a young child, as I grew up about twenty minutes away in a neighboring town. However, it was walking distance from our middle school and high school, Lindstrom’s downtown, and also near where many of my friends lived, so I visited the park countless times when I was nearby. When I was in elementary school, my babysitter for the summer, Becca, took me to Beach Park a few times. She pushed me on the swings, I slid down the blue plastic slide, and climbed on the metal monkey bars. We swam in the cool lake on the hot, humid days. When I was that age, I preferred the playground at Paradise Park, which was closer to my house and had a see-saw and a tire swing. Beach Park is the site of Lindstrom’s annual town celebration, Karl Oskar Days, which takes place the second week of July. The whole town packs into the park with their folding chairs and bug spray to enjoy the culmination of the town celebration – the firework show – on Saturday night. My friends and I attended the fireworks and festival every year. Along with the whole town, we too packed into the grassy area of the park with our folding chairs and bug spray. Mosquitos were rampant, but that did not keep the stubborn, heavily Scandinavian residents away. The fireworks shot off from a barge on the lake and lit up the sky with a colorful display. Shapes with brilliant reds, bright golds, and breathtaking blues covered the sky above the park. Noise from the fireworks pierced my ears. It used to bother me when I was younger, but I got used to it with age. Watching the fireworks show at Beach Park was

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