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And if you have a chance, please rate, review and share with friends:. Some were driven directly into town, while others arrived by train, canal boat or riverboat, but all had to be herded through the city by drovers and guttersnipes who cared not a whit for obstacles, human or otherwise. What obstruction or inconvenience it may prove to vehicles in the street or the crowd of passers upon the sidewalk, is a consideration that troubles in no degree the heads of the contractor and his yelling and slashing gang of vagabonds.
You may be splashed and run into, delayed and otherwise offended, upset, it may be. They come against you wherever you turn, from huge, black, muddy, unsightly monsters, down to little sucklings not much bigger than kittens, on which you inadvertently tread and stumble, amid shrill squeakings almost enough to blow you off your legs, and quite enough to alarm the neighbourhood, if it had not long ago got used to every possible variation of noise in which swine can convey their thrilling protests of resentment or alarm.
The name only drifted back to Cincinnati as a nostalgic sobriquet about the time the last of our stockyards and packing plants shut down or moved away.
This article was reposted with permission from Greg Hand, editor of Cincinnati Curiosities. Sign in. Chicago surpassed Porkopolis as the nation's No. Cincinnati shifted to other industries to spur its growth, and the meat business slowly declined, decade by decade, until the Cincinnati Stockyards closed in Cincinnati pretty much had shelved its hog history by the time it turned in But a controversial movement to grace the entrance to the new Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point with flying pigs designed by artist Andrew Leicester resurrected interest in the city's piggy past.
Several city council members donned pig snouts during meetings to mull over what to do with Leicester's winged hogs. Since then, what had been the symbol of Cincinnati's stinky, dirty days of meat packing became a whimsical symbol of its spirit. The phrase "when pigs fly" -- known in grammar-speak as an adynaton -- is a figure of speech that describes an impossibility. To many Cincinnatians, the fact that pigs do fly at Bicentennial Commons means that, in their city, anything is possible.
The many runners who will wear pig suits during the Flying Pig weekend prove that point to be true in Cincinnati. Porkopolis In , Ed.
Five years later, Cincinnati had become a huge hog processing center. As the story goes, a banker named George W. A few years after these correspondences began, the British banker sent his American friend two papier-mache hogs telling Jones he was a proper agent of Porkopolis. In fact, with the completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in , the streets were awash in hogs, at least in the fall and winter.
Still, the city was the pork-packing capital of the world for the rest of the 19th century and most of the 20th. The town had a dancing pig, though, by way of musician Red Foley. In , he released the song "Cincinnati Dancing Pig," which reached No. In the s, as part of the th anniversary of the founding of the city, a park was built along the river and named Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point. Atop each smokestack is a small statue of a pig.
In an apparent fit of whimsy, Leicester adorned the creatures with wings. Since then, the city has really latched on to the idea. In , the inaugural Flying Pig Marathon was held. It is now the third-largest first-time marathon in the U.
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