The Lights of Broadwell

A good bit from the Chicago Sun-Times on the recently destroyed Pig Hip in Broadwell and its owner Ernie Edwards. I particularly liked the encounter with The Colonel.

Although I have to quibble with this:

Ernie, Jr. was born in Murphysboro in 1917 and lived in tiny Central Illinois towns like Salem and Lincoln. He arrived in Broadwell in 1937.

OK, Salem is in Southern Illinois and while Lincoln is no metropolis, with a population of 15,000 it certainly isn’t tiny in the way, say, Broadwell, is.

I suspect the writer’s Chicago point of view is interfering with accuracy here. Although he gets extra points for even realizing there is a Central Illinois. Many northerners think of anything south of I-80 as Southern Illinois.