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Bible Restaurant

Debunk the Net

Hoax Sites

Newsfeeds

WLS AM Radio!

The legendary 50,000 watt Chicago blowtorch!

Photos

Our Cats

Corn on the Curb

Giant painted fiberglass corn forms!

David Davis Mansion

The mansion of Judge David Davis is in Bloomington IL. He was behind Abraham Lincoln's rise to national power.

Frederick MD Community Bridge Mural

These photos were taken at the "Community Bridge" mural in downtown Frederick, MD (which was founded in 1743!)

Fairbury Illinois

"The Queen City of the Cornbelt"
as declared in the old Fairbury Blade newspaper.

Homeshield Fabric Tank

Replacing a 200,000 gallon fire prevention system reservoir.

Humiston Woods

Nature center on the Vermilion River near Pontiac, Illinois

Mushroom

Our House

Starved Rock State Park

Located along the Illinois River between Ottawa and Utica.

More Stuff

Homeshield History
If you are or were an employee of Homeshield, aka Nichols-Homeshield, aka American Screen Company, in Chatsworth, IL, or a current or former resident of Chatsworth, you will enjoy browsing through these old Homeshield newsletters from the early '60s.

WLS Radio 890 History!
If you live in or are from the Midwest, try some radio nostalgia! This link is a history of WLS, with lots of content. You can also get CD's of Vol. 1 - 4 of Animal Stories, (with Uncle Larr and Little Tommy), here! Some of the funniest stuff ever heard on radio!

Web Design

Are you a non-profit organization or small business in need of a Web site or a re-design? I can help.

Epitaphs Found on Real Headstones

Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903-Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down.
It was.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in
East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.
The Good Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
Anna Wallace:
The children of Israel wanted bread,
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me
For not rising.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne,
England, cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
And thou wilt find a Penny.
In a Rhinebeck, NY cemetery:
"Death is a debt to nature due,
Which I have paid, and so must you."
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg
Falls,Vermont :
Here lies the body of our Anna -
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket,
Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I.
Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing on the
tombstone:
To follow you I'll not consent
Until I know which way you went

 

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