To the Bat Cave, Robin!
In case you haven't wasted any time at the MHS Visual Resource Database
lately, there are loads of images of Fountain Cave, etc. Start at
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/
One day in the future, you'll be able to slide down your Irvine Park
batpole, into your boat, and zoom out your river-level tunnel to New
Orleans (via the head House Drive-Thru, of course).
BTW, bats are big business down in Austin, TX. Not sure what becomes of
all the guano, though...
Since Neil wasn't included in today's CSN Medallion Clue, I leave you with
this battiness:
Neil Young
"Vampire Blues"
I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you
twenty barrels worth.
I'm a black bat, babe,
bangin' on
your window pane
I'm a black bat, baby,
bangin' on
your window pane.
Well, I'm a black bat, babe,
I need my high octane.
Good times are comin',
I hear it everywhere I go
Good times are comin',
I hear it everywhere I go.
Good times are comin',
but they sure comin' slow.
I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you
twenty barrels worth.
Good times are comin'.
Andrew M. Hine
Corporate Research Materials Laboratory
3M Center 201-1W-28
St. Paul MN
55144-1000
USA
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Erik Hare
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I am one of the few people here that has (probably) been in Fountain Cave.
I say "probably" because it's hard to say for sure, the way things have
been blown up.
However, there's one wet and largely natural cave there, right under
Shepard Road and right where the plaque says it was removed.
Fountain cave, alone, would be one Hell of an attraction. It is quite
amazing. Remember that the drainage of Crocus Hill (or, that part not
screwed up by I-35E) winds up there, after passing through the vast peat
swamp that was Jefferson/Randolph/and down. There's a LOT of water going
through there.
But the city keeps filling it in, and kid-sized holes sprout up along with
the gargoyles carved into the soft sandstone of the equally impressive
Schmidt tunnels (15 feet high, 20 feet wide, stretching for easily a
hundred yards in parallel).
How people see this as a nuisance is beyond me. I honestly consider
digging out these caves a valid form of civil unrest, and a viable
protest. I think we should all do it, actively, and tell the freakin'
morons in the city to bite me.
Erik Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.comcast.net/~wabbitoid/
Irvine Park, West End, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, North America, Earth
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