[lit-ideas] Re: 3/6

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:56:29 +0900

On 3/25/07, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wait!  What's wrong with my favorite Paris, the one in Illinois!  I've
actually been there!  The big celebration is the "Honey Bee" festival in
the fall.


Don't forget Paris, Missouri, "The friendliest town in little Dixie."

http://www.marktwainlake.com/paris/

For me it figures in a piece of family folklore, my grandfather's tale of
driving a mule-drawn wagon from Paris to Mexico (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico,_Missouri).

John




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