Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: June 11, 1943

Thelma and Lowell's Diary: June 11, 1943

They eat their catch for supper

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: June 11, 1943
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Lowell wrote today that they had “very good luck with the bull-heads” while fishing today on Lake Erie. They had a fish supper when they got back to Dunkirk. The bull-head is better known in the South as the catfish. This is a nineteenth century illustration of the whiskered fish, accessed through Wikimedia Commons.

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