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Life in the small town

John Mellencamp would be at home in Sturgeon

Sunday, May 13, 2007 | 2:00 p.m. CDT

‘No I cannot forget where it is that I come from ...’
Eric May, 10, cheers as a Sturgeon fire truck passes on North Ogden Street on April 29.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

BY ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

‘No I cannot forget where it is that I come from ...’

‘... I cannot forget the people who love me...’

‘... Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town ...’

‘... And people let me be just what I want to be.’

— John Mellencamp, “Small Town”

Sturgeon High School students, from left, Ellen Stockton, Shemiah Varner and Becky Roberts play a card game during lunch on May 3.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

Wendy and Keven McGee have a conversation at Sturgeon’s only bar, R-Pop-A-Top, on May 1.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

Minnie Eisenoggle walks into her home as her husband, Robert, soaks in the sun in the front yard. The Eisenoggles, who have lived in Sturgeon for 11 years, bought their home, a former chapel, by arranging three years of payments for $50 a month.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

Steven Lawrence, 11, poses with his bike on North Ogden Street. His bike is made to look like a chopper motorcycle. “It’s kind of hard to pedal uphill,” he said.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

Richard Pollock, left, and Garrett Kelly guide their one-horse carriage.   ¦  ADAM WISNESKI/Missourian

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