http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/sports/25thorpe.html
Showing posts with label Jim Thorpe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Thorpe. Show all posts
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Burial Ground
This is interesting. Apparently, Jim Thorpe was all set to be buried in Oklahoma, but while waiting for a memorial to be built, his body was shipped off to a town in Pennsylvania to (I assume) boost their tourism economy.
Labels:
Battery Park,
death,
Jim Thorpe,
OK,
Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania,
sports
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