Word: torrington
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starr is less interested in seeing justice done than in trying to bring Clinton down. Starr keeps spreading his net ever wider, but all he has been snaring is red herrings. SID GOLOVIN Torrington, Conn...
Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...
...been stalling since early June, when Torrington, a tiny community with access to a bit of tourist-development money from the province, opened the Gopher Hole Museum. Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
Well, naturally, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested in its magazine that animal lovers voice their objections to the mayor of Torrington, Harold Ehrman, and, naturally, Mayor Ehrman said the activists could "go stuff themselves." And, naturally, my wife asked me if I intended to take a stand...
...hear, but faintly is how these issues begin. It may be only a matter of time before everyone will have to take a stand on deceased animals. Is it respectful, for instance, for Roy Rogers to display his horse Trigger stuffed in a noble pose but disrespectful for Torrington to display a stuffed gopher robbing a bank? (Burrowing, after all, is not a felony...