Alot of red pine up there where the lizard was caught by my neighbor, in
Caroline Center actually. Cheviler(sp?) trapped it in an oil drum and
prononced it proof of a Cornell plot of some sort I was not destined to
understand. George has a junkyard that could shelter any number of mutant
cornell experiments. you seen  it - the burned grass down to the ball field
now theyre crawling up here.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Yellow Pine


>On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ken Follett wrote:
>
>> I'm from Brooktondale (Besemer actually) 8 miles E. of Ithaca. Where do
your
>> parents live?
>
>I may have already mentioned this, but ...
>
>During the time I was at Cornell, my favorite Ithaca Journal headline
>(front page, above the fold) was:
>
>          LIZARD STUNS BROOKTONDALE
>
>It might have been just a little better if they had used the G-word in the
>headline instead of just in the story:
>
>          GIANT LIZARD STUNS BROOKTONDALE
>
>The lizard was about two feet long as I recall, and after the stunning was
>done, it was captured and taken to Cornell.  The Cornell lizardologists
>later declined to bring the creature back to Brooktondale for a Lizard
>Festival that some were promoting.
>
>I incorporated the headline into a montage which I still have somewhere.
>
>---
>Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
>The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com
>