my ancestors were barrelmakers so prolly i make barrels

oh so you want to take jobs away from blue-collar american barrelmakers

And that's why he's patron saint of barrelmakers, apparently.

I occasionally send what I've been calling Lazy Latin Translations to friends and decided that I would like to contribute to the whimsy balance in the world so may I present: Butterfly Barrelmakers.

I can see an academic history entitled Black-Market Barrelmakers

For once, a Minneapolis idea spreads to Chicago (barrelmakers, or coopers, forming co-ops, Jan. 7, 1887 Chicago Tribune)

Measuring the angle of her nose to figure out if her ancestors were barrelmakers.

Some people's ancestors were smiths or potters or barrelmakers (coopers). Some families took their name from their hometown (like Washington or Lincoln). My ancestors were just the weirdos who hung out by that big oak tree with the hollow in its trunk 😆

Today, July 30, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the Feast Day of Saint #Abdon, (patron of #barrelmakers, #buryingthedead, #coopers)

( www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1071 )

Today, April 2, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the Feastday of #StUrbanofLangres’, patron of #barrelmakers, #coopers, and #vintners; invoked against #blight, #frost, #storms, #alcoholism, and #faintness

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1886

Today, April 2, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the Feastday of #StUrbanofLangres’, patron of #barrelmakers, #coopers, and #vintners; invoked against #blight, #frost, #storms, #alcoholism, and #faintness

www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1886

Now for baseball, I’m torn between two:

⚾️ Tullies (from the city name, in the same vein as the Philadelphia Phillies)
⚾️ Coopers (barrelmakers, reference to the brewing industry without straight up stealing the name of the Milwaukee Brewers, who I slightly dislike)

Only thing I'd disagree with is that 19th c. MN co-ops were largely agricultural. Mpls barrelmakers had co-ops in the 1880s that onetime Southwest State prof Steven Leiken covers in his book "The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age"

The Barrelmakers Hall of Fane should be in Baseballtown.