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Burlington politics in the mid-19th Century was a rough-and-tumble game and few played the game better than the feisty Irish poet known about town as “Fox.”
The year was 1877. The cows that freely roamed the streets of Burlington had caused a rift, dividing citizens into pro-cow and anti-cow factions. Then came a collection of plants atop a steep flight of stairs too tempting for the cattle to resist.