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Billy Starr doesn’t seem like a bathing beauty, unless “drowning” was considered part of bathing. The town of Picher? It’s a ghost town today. From wikipedia:
Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. Formerly a major national center of lead and zinc mining at the heart of the Tri-State Mining District, over a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings . . . The discovery of the cave-in risks, groundwater contamination and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts—particularly an alarming 1996 study which showed lead poisoning in 34% of the children in Picher.
It was evacuated, bought out by the EPA, and although a few diehards remained, its eventual fate was complete demolition. I say they should erect a statue of Billie, in just that pose. Nine-hundred feet tall.
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