Athol

He was born in Lemonster, Massachusetts.

I eventually ended up spending a bit of my childhood in a place called Athol, Massachusetts.

And my joke there is if you go far enough west in Massachusetts, it gets really beautiful.

But this little area is kind of before there.

Temple Grandin, yeah.

So she designed the, the slaughterhouse that we used to use down in Athol, Mass called Adams Farm.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, good, good people.

It was a problem, yep.

[laughs] So in 1765, the Parliament passed the Isle of Man Purchase Act, and so the British Crown bought most of the sovereign rights held by the Lords of Mann, the Dukes of Atholl.

Yeah, there's a joke, 'cause there's Atholl is, I'm sure there's a place i- in the UK called Atholl, and then there's Athol, Massachusetts, which only has one L, but it's a joke that it sounds like asshole.

So they bought it for 70,000 pounds plus an annual payment.

Um, 70,000 pounds, just in terms of purchasing power, would be around 16 million pounds today.

The City of Spiders by H. Warner Munn.

It was on the twelve-thirty train from Athol to Boston that I met the man with the beady eyes.

I mention the eyes particularly, for they were the distinctive features.

It is very odd that they are all that I can remember of his appearance.

People are waiting for these flyers, okay? I just wish I had more time.

I spent almost a day down in Marshfield and Athol.

Everyone takes these flyers, everyone.

I can just tell you that it's not just independents who support us, but it's Democrats and Republicans.