The Locals

Berendt has weeded out some interesting locals in this book - at first I found it distracting because I thought he should stick to the plot (the Fenice burning: arson or not) but between Olga/Ezra Pound, the Rylands, piano nobile, artist glass blower man, the Rat-Man, and pigeon exterminators now I'm kind of dissappointed that he's back to the main argument of who torched the Fenice. I could really care less now I would just rather read about some other people.

Do we have any interesting people in Rock Island?