Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:22:35 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Michael A. Lewis" <ffmal-AT-aurora.alaska.edu>
Subject: Re: Send a folksinger to the Balkans...


At 4:47 PM -0500 4/7/99, danceswithcarp wrote:
>I like a lot of 60s folk stuff and some of the 80s-90s stuff too. Did you
>ever hear a song by Ochs about america's onliest person convicted of
>cannibalism, Alferd Packer?  He lived in the 19th century.  "Duncan Hines"
>at the end was one of our first mass-producers of ketchup.  And one of the
>Colorado colleges has named their on-campus dining hall the "Alferd Packer
>Dining Hall."  They used to have a food-eating holiday named after him
>too.


	Poor Alfred Packer
	He must have been a mighty fine tracker.

	Colorado State University at Fort Collins, the Alfred E. Packer
Memorial Lunch Room.

Michael A. Lewis
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