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<\/p>\nI mentioned to my ha’brother when I visited this weekend that I used to live just down the road. Which is true for some values of “road” and “just.”<\/p>\n
I mean, US 67 runs through Oconomowoc.<\/p>\n
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In the St. Louis area, US67 runs up Lemay Ferry Road and turns at Lindbergh where it runs around the city and crosses to Illinois at Alton, Illinois. I lived in Lemay, before this blog. Was there ever such at time? Yes, but it was last century. And Lemay is not far from that corner where it turns.<\/p>\n
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This photo is not the corner where it turns; sharp-eyed readers from St. Louis will note that Highway 21 is Tesson<\/em> Ferry Road, not Lemay<\/em> Ferry Road–St. Louis has a lot of roads named for the ferries which were replaced by bridges, of course (and St. Louis also has a lot of roads named for bridges). But the light at Lemay Ferry Road changed before we could get the photo.<\/p>\n Also, note the town of Oconomowoc is close to Okauchee and Okauchee Lake. Which means that I was near two locations specifically mentioned in my poetry: “Okauchee Light<\/a>” and on the highway (I39 six miles south of Tonica) from “Central Illinois Solo”. I was not far from Bee Tree Park<\/a> in South St. Louis County, but we did not swing that far south in our travels (Jefferson Barracks to lunch to I44). It made me think of specific places I have named in my poetry, and that might be two of three (although some further review might be needed for an accurate accounting). At any rate, I thought about places named in my poetry for a bit during my drive home. You can conduct your own review of named places in Coffee House Memories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Sorry, I digress.<\/p>\n So in addition to my home in Lemay being “just down the road” from Nogglestead (the Old Wire Road which runs through Battlefield, Missouri, and used to run through my neighbor’s pasture was a part of Telegraph Road in St. Louis County–both followed the telegraph line from Jefferson Barracks to Fort Smith, Arkansas), it’s just down the road from my ha’brother’s house. Of course, my brother in Missouri wins here, too: He lived in my sainted mother’s old house in Lemay after she passed, and he also later lived in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, so he has lived just down the road from my ha’brother twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I mentioned to my ha’brother when I visited this weekend that I used to live just down the road. Which is true for some values of “road” and “just.” I mean, US 67 runs through Oconomowoc. In the St. Louis area, US67 runs up Lemay Ferry Road and turns at Lindbergh where it runs around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33170,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33165\/revisions\/33170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}