Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
A Cooked Goose: Remembering John Huss. On this day in 1415, John Huss (Jan Hus) was burned at the stake due to his opposition to the heretical doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and his faith and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ.