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