Last night as I was reading Calvin and Hobbes I started to wonder where it was that Bill Waterson's characters lived. It certainly seems a great deal like where I grew up.
Snowy in the winter, hot in the summer. Lots of trees and grass, all the children are above average. Well, Waterson is not from Minnesota, but he did grow up in Ohio.
Lots of famous people are from the midwest. For example:
Thomas Edison
John Deere
The Wright Brothers
Oprah
Henry Ford
John Wayne
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Benny Goodman
Miles Davis
Ronald Regan
Carl Sandburg
James Dean
John Cougar Mellencamp
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Herbert Hoover
Sufjan Stevens
These people are not only from the midwest, but also from my home state. Aren't they gems?
Bob Dylan
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Judy Garland
Garrison Keillor
Sinclair Lewis
Prince
Charles Schulz
Jesse Ventura
p.s. this is one of my favorite strips.
1 comment:
Darling Granddaughter, John Deere is not a person, it is a piece of machinery, developed or designed or, the first one anyway, built by a man named John Froelich, but this is not your Uncle John, same name, different person born a hundred years or so apart.
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