I wish I was in hell....
Hell, Mich that is - they're planning a hot time in Hell on Tuesday.
The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance.
And there;s not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the inincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired uo that John Colone, the town;s self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got '666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items), so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."
Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to 1 square inch of Hell.
Love entertainment are costume contest are planned. The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.
"They're 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed it's a devils head," Colone told Detroit News.
Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.
"WE're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshipers, or anything like that," said Hickey.
The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the tow's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of it's 72 year-round residents - or, as the mayor calls them, Hellions or Hell-Billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.
"Now, here I am living in Gell, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.
According to the town's semi-official Web site, there are two leading theories about how Hell got it's name.
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a statecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene hell" - roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful". Their comments were overhead by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained stateood what he thatought the town he helped settle sould be called, and he reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." The name became offician on Oct. 13,1841
Taken from the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday.
If I had more advance warning, I would so be there right now. Oh well...
The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance.
And there;s not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the inincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired uo that John Colone, the town;s self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got '666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items), so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."
Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to 1 square inch of Hell.
Love entertainment are costume contest are planned. The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.
"They're 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed it's a devils head," Colone told Detroit News.
Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.
"WE're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshipers, or anything like that," said Hickey.
The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the tow's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of it's 72 year-round residents - or, as the mayor calls them, Hellions or Hell-Billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.
"Now, here I am living in Gell, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.
According to the town's semi-official Web site, there are two leading theories about how Hell got it's name.
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a statecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene hell" - roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful". Their comments were overhead by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained stateood what he thatought the town he helped settle sould be called, and he reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." The name became offician on Oct. 13,1841
Taken from the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday.
If I had more advance warning, I would so be there right now. Oh well...