RE: Old Fashioned Lard Soap Recipe
I love the flying pig! I am from Cincinnati, and we were living there when the city had quite a kerfuffle over flying pigs. It seems a LOT of money was spent to commission an artist to create something to top the poles in the brand new Riverwalk park. Much secretiveness and fuss for a few months, and the flying pigs were unveiled. The city had not been that divided since Maplethorpe did a gallery show of art or gay porn depending on which side you were on. (I sat on the sidelines both times, deeply amused by how uptight people get. The Maplethorpe thing... Half the Christians in town rushed down to see it, to make sure they were offended...)
Here is a link to the lovely flying pigs of my home
https://cincihistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/porkopolis/
oh my goodness! That's some story. Thanks for that, I learned something new today and boy did I laugh at the though of all those people running down to "make sure they were offended". I think that Cincinnati statue is awesome :)
I saw our little flying pig years ago and had to buy it for my husband. It's a heavy little lump of cast iron. We have this debate over the word"obey" being in our wedding vows. It was not! :) We like to joke with each other about it.