They're selling postcards of the hanging

[Taverner]

They're painting the passports brown...

What should I do?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Make sure you match the picture in your passport...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUa_zQjO5kU

[NightWatcher]

2. stay out of the beauty parlour.....

it's crowded with sailors

[abq e streeter]

3. That's a tough one. I don't know...but apparently I'm expecting rain

[struggle4progress]

4. Postcard From A Lynching

The other lynching in Duluth
By Chris Julin, Minnesota Public Radio
June 2001
... Toward the end of September <1918>, the tough talk turned to action. A headline in the Duluth Herald read, "Knights Of Liberty Tar And Feather Slacker." The story told of a Finnish immigrant, Olli Kinkkonen, who'd been dragged from a Duluth boarding house the night before, and not seen again. A phone call, and a letter delivered to the paper, took credit for the abduction in the name of a group calling itself the "Knights of Liberty." The letter said Kinkkonen had been tarred and feathered to serve as a warning to all slackers. Kinkkonen never showed up again at his boarding house, and his body was discovered almost two weeks later, dangling from a tree just outside of town, near Lester Park - covered with tar and feathers. Duluth authorities declared the death a suicide ...
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2001/06/lynching/olli.shtml

Excerpts from The Lynchings in Duluth
... it wasn't weather troubling Police Chief John Murphy on this Sunday afternoon, June 13, 1920. He was upset over his deteriorating relationship with the city's Commissioner of Public Safety, William Murnian. Murphy had picked up rumblings of Murnian's dissatisfaction with the way Murphy was running the department. And the directive from Murnian ordering Murphy to report to the showgrounds in West Duluth to confer with the parade manager of the John Robinson Circus to determine the route the parade would take on its 9 a.m. Monday run through downtown, was viewed by Murphy as harassment ... As almost an afterthought, Murnian had called and reminded Murphy that it might be wise if the Chief suggested that the circus people kept their "niggers" in line ... http://www.duluth.lib.mn.us/Programs/Mockingbird/LynchingsExcerpt.html

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Get outta here if you don't know...

Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row.

[cbdo2007]

6. I just drove by Bob's old house in Duluth last weekend on vacation.

Wife thinks I have the strangest things I always want to stop and see. We finally found Bob's old house in Duluth but didn't get to stop at the Buddy Holly plane crash site in Clear Lake, IA because baby was sleeping. Maybe next year :)

[abq e streeter]

7. I've always wanted to make a pilgrimage to Clear Lake too, especially the Surf Ballroom

I live about 5 minutes from where Jim Morrison lived when he was in junior high.I go by there about once a week or so. Hundreds of times by now, and I still look and think about Jim whenever I do. And as far as weird, I DID go to the Bob Feller museum in Van Meter Iowa a few years ago. So, I don't think that was weird of you at all...in fact, just remembering right now, I also had my cousin's husband show me Felix Cavaliere's ( The Rascals) mother's house in either Garfield or Clifton NJ too, the one time I was there. (And of course as a dedicated E Streeter, I went to Asbury Park too, but not Freehold....Next time...)




P. S. Taverner... sorry for the off-topic post here.