[charlie22]

Highlands used to have "Ole Betsy" a Civil War cannon that was fired after scores. It got fired a lot. and it pretty much sounded real. you could be at The Pub and hear it knowing Highlands score just went up. She had to be retired in 08 due to safety reasons... That thing should really be permanently mounted somewhere at the field.

Ole Betsy? You must have read John Deering's article. He is, to the best of my knowledge, the only person that ever referred to the cannon as Ole Betsy (well, at least until he wrote his article). I think either John's old age/failing memory or his "literary license" caused him to come up with "Ole Betsy". I have rather long and strong connections to the cannon and never ever heard it referred to as Ole Betsy until John wrote his article. Neither had the folks that own the cannon.

And I can say with a very high level of confidence that it won't be permanently mounted anywhere.

To your point, it was sure fun watching people jump for the 40 years it was at the games. Can't say that it was intimidating, but a lot of fans of opposing schools sure hated that thing going off.

Ah, the good old days.

And for the record, the cannon's days were numbered at Highlands before the tragic accident. That accident was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm just very thankful that the accident didn't turn out worse than it did.