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.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/sports/25thorpe.html