98% of police reports here are alcohol related. Our county, for some stage dynamic and set of reasons, is number ONE in the number of alcoholics, per capita, of all the counties in the ENTIRE USA. Sometimes Dade County, Florida will spurt into the lead, but then, we have the "honor" for a year or two -- once again. We are LaSalle County --about 100 miles S.W. of Chicago. I commuted from here to the Chicago folk scene and also my jobs singing on steamboats on the Mississippi River. And found time to tour too.
We came here for the schools--and that was a good move. Then illness hit Carol, and 20 years later, me. --- All is well tonight though. I can feel Summer in the cool breezes wafting in as I'm pecking this out. Life is a gas. Sometimes pure oxygen and sometimes a fart. But everyone I know drives defensively as all hell. In this county, it's the best way to stay alive.