The Radioactive Trio still alive!

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Wilmington,Coal City and Morris still glowing.There's something in the water,and it glows.
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Random question for those in this thread. Is the term yellowhammer still used? I had a friend years ago from Wilmington who used the term “hammer”, but none of us knew where it originated. He told me one time that it was just a term used to describe people from Wilmington but to never call anyone that if I were ever in Wilmington.
 

Doctor_D

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Random question for those in this thread. Is the term yellowhammer still used? I had a friend years ago from Wilmington who used the term “hammer”, but none of us knew where it originated. He told me one time that it was just a term used to describe people from Wilmington but to never call anyone that if I were ever in Wilmington.
It’s from the days back 100 years ago when the coal mines were still in operation and there were Appalachian types that settled in the area between Braidwood and Wilmington. They supposedly had their own little shanty town area. It hasn’t existed for about 100 years, but it makes for a good story.
 
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Random question for those in this thread. Is the term yellowhammer still used? I had a friend years ago from Wilmington who used the term “hammer”, but none of us knew where it originated. He told me one time that it was just a term used to describe people from Wilmington but to never call anyone that if I were ever in Wilmington.

It’s from the days back 100 years ago when the coal mines were still in operation and there were Appalachian types that settled in the area between Braidwood and Wilmington. They supposedly had their own little shanty town area. It hasn’t existed for about 100 years, but it makes for a good story.
Yellow Hammers were a type of sacrificial birds they would release into the mines to check the air quality.

When they ran low on birds (or out) they would send the (Appalachian types that settled in the area between Braidwood and Wilmington). They were just extra Yellow Hammers.
 
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