I am hard-pressed to figure out why this is a story:HAMILTON! — More than 20 years ago, the city opted to add some punctuation to its name and received national attention.Ed Shelton gets a shout out...
It was late 1985 when city council unanimously approved replacing the comma in Hamilton, Oh with an exclamation point.
"An exclamation point is used to convey excitement or strong emotion, and that is the way we feel about Hamilton," said then-City Manager J.P. Becker in a report to council dated August 14, 1985.
Butler County Commissioner Greg Jolivette, who was mayor when the ordinance was adopted, still has the photo in his office of when he traveled to New York City to talk with CBS Morning News about the exclamation point.
Jolivette said the idea was the brainchild of Stu Jones, an advertising man who volunteered with the Chamber of Commerce.
He borrowed it from the title of the play "Oklahoma!"
Did this make it in to the actual paper? And if so, what section???
UPDATE 1: Previously on WMD, I said:
Hamilton doesn't trust West Chester because they are filthy rich riches and West Chester doesn't trust Hamilton because they represent the "good old boys" club.Emphasis added.
I'm from Fairfield...I think they both are nuts.
I'd like to enter this story as Exhibit A in the Hamilton file...
