EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Greetings from the hometown of Gerald R. Ford. While former President Ford was born in 1913 as Leslie King in Omaha, Neb., and he grew up with his adopted family in Grand Rapids, this inner suburb of Michigan’s second-largest city on its welcome sign claims Mr. Ford as a hometown son because the former chief executive and his family once resided in leafy lakeside community. Now the suburb is better known in some circles as the fictional home of the “American Pie” trilogy. (In “American Pie,” the town is called East Great Falls. In real life, the movie’s screenwriter came from East Grand Rapids.)

Anyhow, before we arrived in western Michigan late this afternoon, we took a detour from our route heading through Indiana and passed through yet another college town (where we drove through a brief storm that dropped some snow, freezing rain and hail all in the span of five minutes, as you can see here from this photo we took from the car), which brings us to our next clue for the DCist pre-Cinco de Mayo party trivia challenge.