The Famous Tay Whale Dundee city centre. Paul Godfrey described McGonagall on the strength of the "Tay Whale" and other verse as "the worst poet in the English language". Hugh MacDiarmid wrote of the "Tay Whale" that "what this [the verses about John Wood and the Tay Whale] amounts to, of course, is simply what quite uneducated and stupid people—the two adjectives by no means necessarily go together, for many uneducated people have great vitality and a raciness of utterance altogether lacking here—would produce if asked to recount something they had read in a newspaper." MacDiarmid continued that "in their retailings of, or comments
Pencoyd Railroad Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri) renamed Michael R. Haverty Freight House Bridge in recognition of Mike Haverty, who was the Chair of the Union Station Kansas City Board from 2005 to 2012. Pencoyd Railroad Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri) The Pencoyd Railroad Bridge is a former railroad bridge in Kansas City, Missouri that was converted into the Freight House Pedestrian Bridge and moved to its new location where it connects Union Station and the Crossroads Arts District. The bridge was built in 1892 just south of the Second Hannibal Bridge as part of the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad which ran from Independence, Missouri to the