On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ken Follett wrote:

> Which then reminds of our doing window sealant work several years ago on what
> was then the Urban League in Manhattan near the end of the Queensboro Bridge.
> The building was a higher elevation than the nextdoor Humane Society which
> continued with daily cremations. We were into the job several weeks before
> the crew on the rig figured out what the smell was and that such stench was
> connected to the black smoke from the metal chimney of the nearby building.

I was a county commissioner in Ingham County, Michigan, in 1983-88.

Ingham County provides an official residence for the sheriff on the
grounds of the jail (kind of like the White House or Gracie Mansion at the
sheriff level, but it's just a mid-1960s ranch house).  In the same
complex is the Animal Control facility.

Back in the 1970s, when air conditioning was still seen as a rarely needed
luxury item in Michigan, the commissioners were somewhat skeptical about
the sheriff's request that the sheriff's house be air conditioned:  not
window units, but a whole house system.

But the sheriff argued that he needed the air conditioning because the
house was downwind of Animal Control and the "stench of burning dogs."

His request was agreed to.

                                 Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
Washtenaw County Commissioner, 4th District
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