Wow! I thought this was a thread defining my idea of Heaven. Ten Thousand Big Micks. Whoo-eeee!

Oh. Oh, just plain ol' Micks.

nivver mind.

Actually, paddymac, I heard one story related to the Irish and that canal. The Irish were sent to dig it because disease was so rampant that there was about a 100 percent mortality rate and the landowners didn't want to waste their valuable "colored" slaves in that way. I don't know any more about it than that, but I have heard that there's an "Irish canal" in N'Orleans (that my ancestors helped build, allegedly, so I guess the mortality rate wasn't exactly 100 percent ...)

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