>From: "Maher, Steve (SD-MS)" <SMAHER@PO2.GI.COM> >Subject: V6anagon/ Route 66, Day 3, part B /L >with no problem (fingers crossed). >Devil's Rope, it turn out, refers to barbed wire, and this >is the first and only museum dedicated to it that I have >ever seen, or even heard of. Did you know that, when the >railroads were first building across the country, they >fenced off their rights-of-way with this stuff, and had the >Glidden Co. design a special, unique kind so that any >farmers who stole it for their own use, would be easier to >catch and prosecute? Now you do. BTDT, bought the barbed wire. DeKalb, Illinois is where the Glidden folk lived. The High School team is the "Barbs". There's Barb City This and Barb City That. >Damn it, this is not the way to do Route 66-- there are >hundreds of interesting places/people to see. Maybe when I'm >rich and famous... I live right off Annie Glidden Road (the daughter). I'm not that interesting, but you don't have to be rich and famous... -Jim Bryant
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