Wabash

The little things.

In 1880 in Wabash, Indiana someone wrote about the first streetlights that were there.

"The people almost with bated breath stood overwhelmed with awe as if in the presence of the supernatural.

The strange weird light exceeded in power only by the sun, yet mild as moonlight rendered the courthouse square as light as midday." Of course now there are streetlights in every city and we drive past them and don't think twice about them.

All right.

Um, I think I'm gonna start when I'm a, a child because, uh, I was the oldest of many grandchildren, and my grandfather was the minister of our Pr- the Presbyterian church I grew up in in Wabash, Indiana, which is a rural, kind of a rural small town, Midwest, in the-- So that would have been the '60s when I was a kid.

And this was, you know, n- this was, was or not far from KKK territory.

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

So the location is going to be in Wabash, Indiana at the Wabash County Fairgrounds, Friday, April 2nd and Saturday, April 3rd, 2027.

So that's

going to be, you're going to have two rounds on Friday.

It was supposed to be caused by poisoned milk because it occurred at a certain time when the cows ranged in the woods and pastured, feeding upon many strange herbs.

Dr. Victor Vaughan, dean of the medical school of the University of Michigan, than whom there is not a more earnest devotee of medical research in the world, writes to me that the milk sickness, so-called of the pioneer days in the Ohio and Wabash Basin, was and is yet a medical mystery.

Happily, it disappeared when the land was cultivated.

My mother was born at Circleville, Piqua County, Ohio, April 30, 1827.

That's a free show.

It's That Arena Rock Show playing arena rock tributes at seven thirty at the Honeywell Center in Wabash.

Tickets are twenty-six dollars.

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