Extra Credit Questions

[Joe Di Cola]

Joe,

I am originally from a small town in southeastern Illinois called Albion, founded by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower. Birkbeck is often credited with keeping slavery out of Illinois. There, we put ketchup on our hot dogs, fries, and I've even known some who put it on potato chips.

Sandburg might have written a poem as well:

Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
Purveyor of the all-beef wiener
on which no bottle of sin should ever squirt.

Best
Rob

I think those were the ORIGINAL words before Harriet Monroe insisted the words be changed if he wanted to see it published in her Poetry magazine.
Lincoln spoke in an oak grove west of Albion while stumping for William Henry Harrison and other Whigs in 1840.