{"id":3295,"date":"2017-08-04T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:43:37","slug":"a-brief-stop-in-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Stop in Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in upstate New York last week (I gave a concert in Lily Dale, of all places), and took the opportunity to stop off in Perry, where John Keel grew up. Mamie Caton and I had lunch in the Country Kitchen, took a picture of me at the local library (where John was, in his words, &#8220;a reading machine&#8221;), and admired Silver Lake.<\/p>\n<p>John told the story of A. B. Walker&#8217;s Silver Lake Sea Serpent hoax in Chapter 21 of <em>Strange Creatures of Time and Space<\/em> (Chapter 22 of the revised version, <em>The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings<\/em>). I posted an old postcard of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=353\">here<\/a>. The sea serpent is still the town mascot: a trailer park by the lake is called Sea Serpent View, and the Perry Fire Department holds an annual Sea Serpent Softball Tournament. What could be more fitting for John&#8217;s hometown?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SEASERPENTPIC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SEASERPENTPIC.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SEASERPENTPIC-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3297\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2811-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3313\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2851-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3315\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2832-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3316\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2864-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3317\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2874-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=3299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PERRYSOFTBALL-794x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PERRYSOFTBALL-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PERRYSOFTBALL-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PERRYSOFTBALL-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PERRYSOFTBALL.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in upstate New York last week (I gave a concert in Lily Dale, of all places), and took the opportunity to stop off in Perry, where John Keel grew up. Mamie Caton and I had lunch in the Country Kitchen, took a picture of me at the local library (where John was, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}