Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 2004/05

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Premiere of Among Friends
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:38:05 -0400

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> OT, but ever curious...
>
> I consulted a tour book (AAA). It says that the two cities "grew up
> together" on opposite sides of the Mississippi, rather than splitting
> apart from a parent city.
>
> St. Paul's was originally named "Pig's Eye" because the federal
> government drove some settlers away from government land (Ft. Snelling).
> The displaced settlers were led by a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye"
> Parrant, who was "a wild French Canadian whiskey trader."

One of the local twin cities breweries makes "Pig's Eye Pilsner" beer,
which is quite popular amongst the college set. At least, when I was in
college in MN, that was the cheapest stuff that could one could tolerably
swallow.

Interestingly, the two cities have very different characteristics. St.
Paul is more like older East Coast cities, with narrow downtown streets
and few glass skycrapers, while Minneapolis is perhaps more sterile but
eye catching.

-jeremy
http://klezmer.org

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