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	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==
	[[File:Choa Chu Kang library.jpg\|left\|thumb\|The Winesburg Public Library Reading Room as it appears today. Butler's trap door is covered with acoustic ceiling tiles.]]		[[File:Choa Chu Kang library.jpg\|left\|thumb\|The Winesburg Public Library, Little Turtle Branch, Reading Room as it appears today. Butler's trap door is covered with acoustic ceiling tiles.]]
	It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, ~~[[The Winesburg Public Library]]~~ librarian ~~who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s~~.		It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, another librarian.

	Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their shared distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in [[w:Fort Wayne, Indiana\|Fort Wayne, Indiana]].		Butler entered the Little Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their shared distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in [[w:Fort Wayne, Indiana\|Fort Wayne, Indiana]].

	Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]], where their descendants enjoy a hearty game of pickle ball to this day.		Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]], where their descendants enjoy a hearty game of pickle ball to this day.

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	Butler's parents were Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler (1845-1929) and Polly Butler (née Starin; 1850-1931).		Butler's parents were Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler (1845-1929) and Polly Butler (née Starin; 1850-1931).

	Polly descended from an elite American family, the Starins, who could track their lineage back to Nicholas Starin (aka, Staring; 1663-1759) and who once owned their own island amusement park ([[w:Starin's_Glen_Island\|Starin's Glen Island]]) which was serviced by their own steamship line.<ref>William Leete Stone, ''The Starin family in America : Descendants of Nicholas Ster (Starin), on of the early settlers of Fort Orange (Albany, N. Y. )'' (Albany, NY: J. Mursell's Sons, 1892. https://archive.org/details/starinfamilyinam00ston</ref> Alas, Polly's branch of the Starins suffered a severe economic reversal during the Bloomfield Tulip Panic of 1792.<ref>Less well-known than the [[w:Tulip_mania\|Dutch Tulip mania]] of the 1630s, the Bloomfield Tulip Panic was ~~nonethless~~ disastrous for at least five families in central New Jersey.</ref> They never recovered their social standing.		Polly descended from an elite American family, the Starins, who could track their lineage back to Nicholas Starin (aka, Staring; 1663-1759) and who once owned their own island amusement park ([[w:Starin's_Glen_Island\|Starin's Glen Island]]) which was serviced by their own steamship line.<ref>William Leete Stone, ''The Starin family in America : Descendants of Nicholas Ster (Starin), on of the early settlers of Fort Orange (Albany, N. Y. )'' (Albany, NY: J. Mursell's Sons, 1892. https://archive.org/details/starinfamilyinam00ston</ref> Alas, Polly's branch of the Starins suffered a severe economic reversal during the Bloomfield Tulip Panic of 1792.<ref>Less well-known than the [[w:Tulip_mania\|Dutch Tulip mania]] of the 1630s, the Bloomfield Tulip Panic was nonetheless disastrous for at least five families in central New Jersey.</ref> They never recovered their social standing.

	Jeremy's father, Wrestling "With the Devil", insisted the younger Butler be raised in a sect of wrestling Christians—The Church of the Sacred Sleeper Hold or Nomroms—who communed with their savior through strenuous Sunday morning wrestling matches. They wore masks, in [[w:Lucha_libre\|the ''Lucha Libre'' tradition]], because the Nomroms believed their true faces would offend God. Jeremy had the sect's equivalent of a [[w:Bar_and_bat_mitzvah\|bar mitzvah]] when, at age 13, he and his father tag-team wrestled two Nomrom deacons. Upon pinning one of the deacons, Jeremy was declared "a man." The Nomroms disbanded soon afterward, but Jeremy kept the mask.		Jeremy's father, Wrestling "With the Devil", insisted the younger Butler be raised in a sect of wrestling Christians—The Church of the Sacred Sleeper Hold or Nomroms—who communed with their savior through strenuous Sunday morning wrestling matches. They wore masks, in [[w:Lucha_libre\|the ''Lucha Libre'' tradition]], because the Nomroms believed their true faces would offend God. Jeremy had the sect's equivalent of a [[w:Bar_and_bat_mitzvah\|bar mitzvah]] when, at age 13, he and his father tag-team wrestled two Nomrom deacons. Upon pinning one of the deacons, Jeremy was declared "a man." The Nomroms disbanded soon afterward, but Jeremy kept the mask.

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	'''Jeremy Butler''' (April 24, 1873-November 14, 1960) was known for ~~the~~ mean slice he perfected on Throw Park's tennis courts, ~~which~~ he ~~then~~ adapted for ~~his~~ pickleball ~~game~~.		'''Jeremy Butler''' (April 24, 1873-November 14, 1960) was a well-respected scholar of the works of Henry David Thoreau. He was known for a mean slice he perfected on Throw Park's tennis courts, on land that he donated to the City. His descendants studied motion pictures of his tennis technique and adapted it for pickleball in the 2000s.

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	After graduating in 1895, Butler quickly established himself in the lucrative field of interpreters of [[w:Henry David Thoreau\|Henry David Thoreau's]] work. He claimed to have read ''Walden'' 3,459 times while living for two years, two months, and two days in an underground bunker on the the site of Thoreau's famous cabin near [[w:Walden_Pond\|Walden Pond]], not far from [[w:Concord,_Massachusetts\|Concord, Massachusetts]].		After graduating in 1895, Butler quickly established himself in the lucrative field of interpreters of [[w:Henry David Thoreau\|Henry David Thoreau's]] work. He claimed to have read ''Walden'' 3,459 times while living for two years, two months, and two days in an underground bunker on the the site of Thoreau's famous cabin near [[w:Walden_Pond\|Walden Pond]], not far from [[w:Concord,_Massachusetts\|Concord, Massachusetts]].

	Butler's ''chef-d'œuvre'' on Thoreau's work was a 765-page exegesis of single sentence in ''Walden'':		Butler's ''chef-d'œuvre'' on Thoreau's work was a 765-page exegesis of a single sentence in ''Walden'':

	<blockquote>Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb, — heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board, — may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!<ref>Henry D. Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), p. 356. https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifeinwo1854thor/page/356/mode/2up </ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb, — heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board, — may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!<ref>Henry D. Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), p. 356. https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifeinwo1854thor/page/356/mode/2up </ref></blockquote>

	Butler's monograph on this ''Walden'' sentence took 12 years to write and bore the ungainly title ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker: A Prolegomenon to Prefatory Thoughts Leading Us to Considerations of How to Beginning Critiquing the Positioning of Alburnum in Mr. H. D. Thoreau's Works Approaching Walden Pond''. Butler's Introduction explains,<blockquote>''Quis novit quid pulchrum templi cherubin et vita: qui ovum defossum erit in saecula saeculorum sub enim plures stratis woodenness in mortui aridam vita societatis, deposita prima est in alburnum ex viridi et viventem lignum, quod successive vertitur in simile et eius bene-condietur sepulcrum: - auditis forsan edax et iam annis a lamberet attonitas erectis genere est homo, cum sedit per festivae quaedam tabula, - ut ex inopinato egrediuntur de medio societatis, in minimis et handselled supellectilem, ut comederetis fructum eius perfectum aestate vitae, tandem!''</blockquote>		Butler's monograph on this ''Walden'' sentence took 12 years to write and bore the ungainly title ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker: A Prolegomenon to Prefatory Thoughts Leading Us to Considerations of How to Beginning Critiquing the Positioning of Alburnum in Mr. H. D. Thoreau's Works Approaching Walden Pond''. Butler's Introduction explains,

			<blockquote>''Quis novit quid pulchrum templi cherubin et vita: qui ovum defossum erit in saecula saeculorum sub enim plures stratis woodenness in mortui aridam vita societatis, deposita prima est in alburnum ex viridi et viventem lignum, quod successive vertitur in simile et eius bene-condietur sepulcrum: - auditis forsan edax et iam annis a lamberet attonitas erectis genere est homo, cum sedit per festivae quaedam tabula, - ut ex inopinato egrediuntur de medio societatis, in minimis et handselled supellectilem, ut comederetis fructum eius perfectum aestate vitae, tandem!''</blockquote>

	Butler's decision to write his ''magnum opus'' in Latin did somewhat curtail readership, but it gained him the academic respect he so clearly desired. And for an American public starved for information about Thoreau, the book became a ''cause célèbre''—leading to ludicrously well-paid speaking tours and invitations to present what today would be called [[w:Microsoft PowerPoint\|PowerPoint slides]] in bourgeois drawing rooms across Indiana during the 1910s.		Butler's decision to write his ''magnum opus'' in Latin did somewhat curtail readership, but it gained him the academic respect he so clearly desired. And for an American public starved for information about Thoreau, the book became a ''cause célèbre''—leading to ludicrously well-paid speaking tours and invitations to present what today would be called [[w:Microsoft PowerPoint\|PowerPoint slides]] in bourgeois drawing rooms across Indiana during the 1910s.

	[[File:Ferdinand Schmutzer - Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, um 1914.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]]		[[File:Ferdinand Schmutzer - Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, um 1914.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]]
	Not surprisingly, the [[Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic]] (WNS&P) aggressively recruited Butler for the [[w:Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] Endowed Chair in Crypto Ceramics and Thoreuvian Studies. On June 28, 1914, Dean Rotogravure managed to convince Butler to join the faculty. Most observers agreed that it was purely ~~coincidence~~ that the Archduke was assassinated—thus precipitating [[w:World_War_I\|World War I]]—on the day that Butler signed his contract with WNS&P. The deed, as they say, was done nonetheless and Butler remained in the AFFE Chair until his retirement on September 1, 1939—the day that the Nazis invaded Poland and [[w:World_War_II\|World War II]] began. Again, this timing was thought by most to be a coincidence.		Not surprisingly, the [[Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic]] (WNS&P) aggressively recruited Butler for the [[w:Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] Endowed Chair in Crypto Ceramics and Thoreuvian Studies. On June 28, 1914, Dean Rotogravure managed to convince Butler to join the faculty. Most observers agreed that it was purely coincidental that the Archduke was assassinated—thus precipitating [[w:World_War_I\|World War I]]—on the day that Butler signed his contract with WNS&P. The deed, as they say, was done nonetheless and Butler remained in the AFFE Chair until his retirement on September 1, 1939—the day that the Nazis invaded Poland and [[w:World_War_II\|World War II]] began. Again, this timing was thought by most to be a coincidence.
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	==Death and posthumous controversy==		==Death and posthumous controversy==
	Butler died on November 14, 1960 of so-called "natural causes." However, on that same day, a [[w:Stéblová train disaster\|railway accident]] in [[w:Stéblová\|Stéblová]] in Eastern [[w:Bohemia\|Bohemia]], [[w:Czechoslovakia\|Czechoslovakia]] (now the [[w:Czech Republic\|Czech Republic]]) killed 118 people and injured another 110. Officials claimed there was no connection with Butler's death.		Butler died in Winesburg on November 14, 1960 of so-called "natural causes." However, on that same day, a [[w:Stéblová train disaster\|railway accident]] in [[w:Stéblová\|Stéblová]] in Eastern [[w:Bohemia\|Bohemia]], [[w:Czechoslovakia\|Czechoslovakia]] (now the [[w:Czech Republic\|Czech Republic]]) killed 118 people and injured another 110. Officials claimed there was no connection with Butler's death.

	He had been dead and gone for many decades before a Latin scholar revealed that he had merely translated Thoreau's sentence into Latin and repeated it for 765 pages, which explains why it had no index.		He had been dead and gone for many decades before a Latin scholar revealed that he had merely translated Thoreau's sentence into Latin and repeated it for 765 pages, which explains why it had no index.

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	'''Jeremy Butler''' (April 24, 1873-~~June 5~~, 1960) was known for the mean slice he perfected on Throw Park's tennis courts, which he then adapted for his pickleball game.		'''Jeremy Butler''' (April 24, 1873-November 14, 1960) was known for the mean slice he perfected on Throw Park's tennis courts, which he then adapted for his pickleball game.

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	[[File:Ferdinand Schmutzer - Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, um 1914.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]]		[[File:Ferdinand Schmutzer - Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, um 1914.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]]
	Not surprisingly, the [[Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic]] (WNS&P) aggressively recruited Butler for the [[w:Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] Endowed Chair in Crypto Ceramics and Thoreuvian Studies. On June 28, 1914, Dean Rotogravure managed to convince Butler to join the faculty. Most observers agreed that it was purely coincidence that the Archduke was assassinated—thus precipitating [[w:World_War_I\|World War I]]—on the day that Butler signed his contract with WNS&P. The deed, as they say, was done nonetheless and Butler remained in the AFFE Chair until his retirement on September 1, 1939—the day that the Nazis invaded Poland and [[w:World_War_II\|World War II]] began. Again, this timing was thought by most to be a coincidence.		Not surprisingly, the [[Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic]] (WNS&P) aggressively recruited Butler for the [[w:Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] Endowed Chair in Crypto Ceramics and Thoreuvian Studies. On June 28, 1914, Dean Rotogravure managed to convince Butler to join the faculty. Most observers agreed that it was purely coincidence that the Archduke was assassinated—thus precipitating [[w:World_War_I\|World War I]]—on the day that Butler signed his contract with WNS&P. The deed, as they say, was done nonetheless and Butler remained in the AFFE Chair until his retirement on September 1, 1939—the day that the Nazis invaded Poland and [[w:World_War_II\|World War II]] began. Again, this timing was thought by most to be a coincidence.

	~~Butler was dead and gone for many decades before a Latin scholar revealed that he had merely translated Thoreau's sentence into Latin and repeated it for 765 pages, which explains why it had no index.~~
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	[[File:Pickleball Pros.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Descendants of Jeremy and Felicity Butler enjoy healthy pickle ball competition on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.]]		[[File:Pickleball Pros.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Descendants of Jeremy and Felicity Butler enjoy healthy pickle ball competition on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.]]
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			==Death and posthumous controversy==
			Butler died on November 14, 1960 of so-called "natural causes." However, on that same day, a [[w:Stéblová train disaster\|railway accident]] in [[w:Stéblová\|Stéblová]] in Eastern [[w:Bohemia\|Bohemia]], [[w:Czechoslovakia\|Czechoslovakia]] (now the [[w:Czech Republic\|Czech Republic]]) killed 118 people and injured another 110. Officials claimed there was no connection with Butler's death.

			He had been dead and gone for many decades before a Latin scholar revealed that he had merely translated Thoreau's sentence into Latin and repeated it for 765 pages, which explains why it had no index.

	==References==		==References==
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	[[File:Choa Chu Kang library.jpg\|left\|thumb\|The Winesburg Public Library Reading Room as it appears today.]]		[[File:Choa Chu Kang library.jpg\|left\|thumb\|The Winesburg Public Library Reading Room as it appears today. Butler's trap door is covered with acoustic ceiling tiles.]]
	It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.		It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.

	Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their ~~mutual~~ distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in Fort Wayne, Indiana.		Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their shared distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in [[w:Fort Wayne, Indiana\|Fort Wayne, Indiana]].

	Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]], where their descendants enjoy a hearty game of pickle ball to this day.		Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]], where their descendants enjoy a hearty game of pickle ball to this day.

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	Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their mutual distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in Fort Wayne, Indiana.		Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their mutual distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

	Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]].		Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]], where their descendants enjoy a hearty game of pickle ball to this day.
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	It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.		It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.

	Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their mutual distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had ~~provided~~.		Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their mutual distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had obtained from a disreputable caterer in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

	~~Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year,~~

			Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year, on April 15, 1912—the day the supposedly unsinkable [[w:Titanic\|RMS ''Titanic'']] sank. They did not see this as a portent for their married life. They used the funds from Jeremy's touring to buy property in Winesburg that they would eventually donate to the city to create the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts in [[Throw Park]].
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	It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.		It was on one of those speaking tours of Indiana in support of ''Insights Gained in the Walden Bunker'' that Butler met Felicity Throw, the grandmother of Winesburg librarian [[Margaret Wiggs]]. Throw was a librarian herself and the daughter of Henry David Throw, [[The Winesburg Public Library]] librarian who had spearheaded the building of the Turtle Branch in the 1880s.

	Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a ~~hole~~ in the ceiling. The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (zaftig) young woman and broke his fall.		Butler entered the Turtle Branch's Reading Room, as was his custom, through a trapdoor in the ceiling (it was part of the rider on his speaking contract and was often constructed at great expense by the venue). The ceiling was quite a bit higher than he anticipated, however, and the room was dark and, well, long story short, he landed right on top on Felicity, which was fortunate as she was a [[wikt:זאַפֿטיק\|זאַפֿטיק]] (''zaftig'') young woman and broke his fall. After their mutual embarrassment subsided and Butler delivered his customarily brilliant talk, they bonded over their mutual distaste for the inexpensive punch the Library had provided.

			Felicity and Jeremy were married the following year,

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