dateline chester, illinois
see? ya just never know...one minute you're driving down a two lane country road in southern illinois, you pull into a small town and find a giant statue of wimpy in the town square...turns out that chester, illinois is the hometown of popeye the sailor's creator, e.c. segar...i was kind of bummed that the official popeye museum was closed on this early saturday morning. i LOVE this stuff...i once got a private tour of the roger miller museum in erick, oklahoma, conducted by an older woman who turned out to be roger's neice. she delighted in showing me an old school essay on which a 4th grade roger said he wanted to grow up and play songs on the radio...or the time i got a tour of the tom mix museum in which the elderly tour guide said, "you see that aluminum suitcase right there? that's the very suitcase what hit tom in the head and killed him when he crashed his car."....of course none of that could hold a candle to the time i saw emmett kelly's clown nose...but that's a whole 'nother story........
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