Sunday, September 23, 2012

Not Just Another Pretty Face

Each Sunday, I'll take a break from the material aspects of this blog and spend a little time looking at the finer points of pigdom.  Most people probably appreciate the ham and bacon side of pigs; little do they know they have a deeper side as well.  We'll start the week with a peek into the favorite quotes of thoughtful pigs and also learn a pig factoid (pigoid?) in a feature called Pigipedia.




PIGIPEDIA
Back in Colonial times, Wall Street was populated by herds of free-roaming pigs that belonged to New York farmers.  Residents of Manhattan wanted to limit their forays, so they erected a long, permanent wall along the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan.  A street eventually ran along the inside of this wall and was, of course, named Wall Street.

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