What with 6/6/06 coming on Tuesday, I thought you might enjoy "Hell", MI. plans, Yes there is such a town!
Please click on the header to be directed to their web site. Now I don't know about you, but it seems to me these folks have not only a great sense of humor, but outstanding town spirit (would that it were the case in Crestwood.) The story below explains their plans for Tuesday, and it looks like fun to me!
Tom Ford
No.159
The story:
Hell, Mich., Heats Up for 6-6-6 Party
HELL, Mich. (AP) - They're planning a hot time in Hell on Tuesday. The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance. And there's not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town's self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got '666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items) so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."
Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to one square inch of Hell.
Live entertainment and a costume contest are planned. The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.
"They're 8 feet tall and 5 foot wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed, it's a devil's head," Colone told The Detroit News for a Saturday story.
Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.
"We're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshippers or anything like that," said Hickey, whose bar's signature concoction is the Bloody Devil, a variant of the Bloody Mary.
Colone, meanwhile, has been in touch with radio stations as far away as San Diego and Seattle that are raffling off trips to Hell in honor of 6-6-6.
The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the town's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of its 72 year-round residents - or, as the mayor calls them, Hellions or Hell-billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.
"Now, here I am living in Hell, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.
According to the town's semiofficial Web site, there are two leading theories about how Hell got its name.
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene hell" - roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful." Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained statehood what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." The name became official on Oct. 13, 1841.
Tom Ford
No.159
The story:
Hell, Mich., Heats Up for 6-6-6 Party
HELL, Mich. (AP) - They're planning a hot time in Hell on Tuesday. The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance. And there's not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town's self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got '666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items) so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."
Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to one square inch of Hell.
Live entertainment and a costume contest are planned. The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.
"They're 8 feet tall and 5 foot wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed, it's a devil's head," Colone told The Detroit News for a Saturday story.
Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.
"We're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshippers or anything like that," said Hickey, whose bar's signature concoction is the Bloody Devil, a variant of the Bloody Mary.
Colone, meanwhile, has been in touch with radio stations as far away as San Diego and Seattle that are raffling off trips to Hell in honor of 6-6-6.
The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the town's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of its 72 year-round residents - or, as the mayor calls them, Hellions or Hell-billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.
"Now, here I am living in Hell, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.
According to the town's semiofficial Web site, there are two leading theories about how Hell got its name.
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene hell" - roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful." Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained statehood what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." The name became official on Oct. 13, 1841.
posted by Crestwood Independent at 15:07
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Did you violate copyright again???
As a matter of fact, no I did not.
Tom Ford
Did'ja ever notice how some lawyers never die they just fade away, and write on blogs.
A blog recently mentioned 2 former Mayors who were easily the worst Mayors the city ever had; and coincidently they were also lawyers.
Did'ja notice what condition the city was in when one of the Mayor/Lawyers left office in a cloud of legal manure and a lawsuit; and the other was just plain voted out because the majority of the voters showed him the door.
If I recall, recently, another Lawyer ran for office and was soundly defeated. So much for lawyers, at least in Crestwood. I think there is a message here, and I think residents are a good deal smarter than we realized.
Did'ja notice how these Mayor/Lawyer's rotund coach soon was encouraged to follow them out the door along with his main squeeze, his fancy car, and his visions of grandeur.
This is all best left behind, way behind, but alas not too soon - so our city can mend; and if these gents nurse any ideas of a future in politics in this city, we need to get our financial feet back ASAP, so as to put in a work order for tar and feathers. We will be a looooooog time remembering the fiasco and the cost of government in this city during the last 6 years. You can count on it.
So, a comeback would not really seem plausible because the events of these disturbing years will not be changed by time. One truly positive thing this city did was divest itself of smooth talking lawyers. Good for us!!!
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Well from now on we shall not publish anythng from anyone, anytime. That should satisfy all concerned.
Thank you for your kind enlightenment on this matter.
Tom Ford
Speaking of ex-Mayors who were Lawyers - check out the total of the legal bills billed to the city during their tenure and afterward to rectify their mistakes/misdeeds; bills not substantiated. There are copies of these bills available. They are beyond exhorbatant!!
Then find out what our monthly fee is now and what for, i.e what we pay the city attorney.
Suggestion: Keep a sharp eye on these bills - I would imagine the bank who holds our line of credit is expecting us to.
Another Suggestion: No more lawyers in city government. The price we are paying is way too high. Time we realized this.
Hooray and three cheers for the bloggers at 10:43 PM 6/6 and at 10:06 PM, 6/10. Both of you are so dead center and right on!!!! I applaud your intelligence and intuition. No more lawyers!! Even when they do wrong, they think they are right. Even when the truth hits them right in the eye - the eye cannot see beyond their egos. They have that big ESQUIRE behind their names, and everybody thinks they are smarter and better than those of us who use common sense. Bloggers I thank you so much. Your words make me proud! Now let's see those who will slambast your words with inuendos and garbage. Those who smooze with these guys and think they too are perfect and wouldn't admit their mistakes either EVER!
"If congressmen talk too much, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
-- Thomas Jefferson
Yep!
Tom Ford
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