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small WORLD podcast|Mayor Mike Haeg, Mount Holly (Population 4) Episode
This episode is work safe.You can find Mt. Holly on Google Maps, one lonely dot near the center of Shakopee. Zoom in and see that the city resides entirely on the corner of Third Avenue East and Holmes Street, across from the Scott County Jail. The town consists of a tidy 1940s bungalow and a single pine tree. Until very recently, Mt. Holly had but one resident: its mayor, Mike Haeg. The minuscule municipality experienced a three-hundred-percent population increase when Haeg’s wife and two children were granted citizenship by the mayor, also the town’s leading advocate of population control.Interview with Mike Haeg, Mayor of Mount Holly.We discuss the landscape of Mount Holly; living modestly; travelling abroad in Europe; how Europe helped shape his politcal views; the founding of Mount Holly; the citizens of Mount Holly; the state of Godzilla; how a post on Boing Boing helped spread awareness of Mount Holly; the 'I Kissed A Stranger' project; the city's major imports and exports; his early political ambitions; how being the mayor has reinforced his politics; the upcoming presidential elections; his political struggle with Ungabunga, a wooden idol; the Mount Holly Public Library; the Mount Holly Municipal Records Department; the band Bridgeclub; how he met Mac Dawg.Featured song is "We Get It On" by Mac Dawg.
[ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 ]
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