[Publib] a plethora of bovine statuary

[Gloria Urban]

FYI, a search of "everyone's photos" on FLICKR using the term "cow statues"
results in OVER 1400 hits. Looks like the competition for that cow may be
mighty tough, even with what seems like half the known universe already
adorned with 'em. 

And, as for having better things to do, this IS the better thing that I am
doing....to avoid the veritable avalanche of Christmas cookies and boxed
chocolates that have swamped our staff room in the last week. If I tasted
some of every offering, I could qualify as a cow statue! 

(So far - no cheese.)



-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of John
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:37 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Cows - don't forget Illinois

Even though I am not a native of the Land of Lincoln, my wife spent many
growing-up years in Harvard, just south of the Wisconsin border.  Harvard
claims, or claimed (I suspect it surely must be the past tense, by now),
that it was the milk capital of the world.  There is a cow, Harmilda--a
statue, not a preserved *real* beast--that sits atop a foundation of some
sort, as I recall, in or near the heart of town.  Though I believe that
Harmilda has been moved since the one time I saw her, on a nostalgic trip to
the town of my wife's youth (ca. 1965-1974, when her parents moved farther
south in IL).  Seems as if the IL Dept. of Transportation declared Harmilda
to be a road/driving hazard, in her original position.

When I--as long as we're on the cheese/cow/milk topic--went to seminary in
Wisconsin, I was shocked to discover that we never had real butter in the
refectory (fancy theological term for "cafeteria"), and the cheese we were
served wasn't necessarily from Wisconsin, nor was some of it anything but
"processed American cheese food."  Shocking!  I was *shocked*!!  APPALLED!!!
I had grown up with/on margarine, and was looking forward to at least three
years' worth of heavenly butter.  Alas.  But there is a happy ending, since
my wife (whose family are all cheeseheads, and proud of it, on both maternal
and paternal sides) uses nothing but butter in cooking, baking, et al.  

Surely I must have better things to be doing, but I wanted to call Harmilda
the Harvard Cow to the world's attention.

John D. Richmond, Director
Alpha Park Public Library District
3527 So. Airport Road
Bartonville, IL 61607-1799
Ph: (309) 697-3822, x. 12
Fax: (309) 697-9681
E-mail: jrichmond at alphapark.org
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