St Louis?
Cahokie?
How many Americans know about that city -- the largest in the country  
before the Europeans came, wasn't it?

Jessica

On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Craig Kilby wrote:

> Fred:
>
> I had to laugh, cry and sob all at one time when I saw your  
> signature that said "Fred, St. Louis".
>
> To me, that moniker said it all.
>
> I now live in Virginia and have long wanted to host a party where  
> people had to put a pin on map showing where St. Louis is.  I want  
> to take parlour bets on this one.  I don't think one in one hundred  
> people in Virginia even have clue where, much less what, St. Louis  
> is to American history.  I think most of them would put it somewhere  
> in Louisiana, assuming they even know where that is. Or sometimes  
> they put in Colorado, or Minnesota.
>
> Mississippi River?  "Oh, that thing out there somewhere."
>
> Lewis & Clark?  "Who?"
>
> Louisiana Purchase?  "What?"
>
> Napoleon?  "Is that a new fur coat?"
>
> This is all very amusing.  I miss St. Louis.  I guess this is a bit  
> poigent today for me because I had lunch with an old friend who also  
> lived in St. Louis, though I did not know her then.  She loved it  
> there.  I am going back in July to conduct an interview that I hope  
> will become a very good article.
>
> I really, really love Virginia and Virginians, and I am glad to be a  
> taxpaying member of the "Virginia is for Lovers" state ( I have yet  
> to see that side of the slogan).  But by golly, they have much to  
> learn about elsewhere.
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:33 PM, John Frederick Fausz wrote:
>
>> Whether she told "lies" or employed "imaginative fabrications"--
>> a methodology that one esteemed reviewer called "outrageous"--
>> that author has discredited the historical profession and revealed
>> the sham of commercial publishing and the once-credible National
>> Book Award.  That so few have criticized one of the worst-titled and
>> least reliable books of "history"--which sadly beat out a fabulous
>> book by the president of Harvard--is a sad commentary on our
>> times and the clearest signal yet that factually-accurate research
>> and writing are DEAD in this country.  More hype and hyprocrisy
>> of a celebrity culture to match our dismal economy and disastrous
>> politics!
>>
>> Fred Fausz
>> St. Louis
>>
>>
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