Bill...if sharing this link isn't allowed, please delete. I grabbed the link off of Facebook.
But this coming Saturday, at a little bend in the road called Big Rock on the western Scott/eastern Clinton County line, a memorial plaque honoring legendary pioneer wrestler Martin "Farmer" Burns will be unveiled in a little grassy park. Word has it that Dan Gable and a few other notable fellas from the wrestling world will be on hand.
Farmer Burns is buried in a cemetery at a slightly larger bend in the same blacktop road about 10 miles to the north in Toronto, north of Wheatland. The farm where I grew up was about 2 miles south of Toronto.
For those who know the history of early wrestling in Iowa...well, you know.
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But this coming Saturday, at a little bend in the road called Big Rock on the western Scott/eastern Clinton County line, a memorial plaque honoring legendary pioneer wrestler Martin "Farmer" Burns will be unveiled in a little grassy park. Word has it that Dan Gable and a few other notable fellas from the wrestling world will be on hand.
Farmer Burns is buried in a cemetery at a slightly larger bend in the same blacktop road about 10 miles to the north in Toronto, north of Wheatland. The farm where I grew up was about 2 miles south of Toronto.
For those who know the history of early wrestling in Iowa...well, you know.
‘Catch’ wrestling legend ‘Farmer’ Burns to be honored by hometown - WIN Magazine
Photo: Martin “Farmer” Burns is well known for discovering the equally-legendary Frank Gotch and later served as an assistant high school coach in the 1920s. By Mike Chapman Readers of this column know how much I love to bring attention to the great figures in wrestling’s rich past …. and...
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