![]() ![]() Surely you already know this: After one year of teaching high school, Jon Hamm left his hometown. ![]() Reputedly, Hamm was known for reading-lists comprised exclusively of Ukrainian lit (leaning heavily on Prokhasko's The UnSimple and Volodymyr Drozd's Everything All Over Again) and for a grim insistence that students embrace a system of writing he developed called "think drafting," which was later adopted by both Otterbein and Bard. Partially true fact: Jon Hamm once taught high school English at the John Burroughs School in St. Incidentally, rumors that The Music Man was based on the early life of Jon Hamm are entirely untrue. Amazingly, in the twelve years Hamm's lived here, the same eagle has sat in the shadows on consecutive days only three times. This puts the eagle that looks the least like Jon Hamm on a given day in shadow once the sun goes behind Hamm's enormous seven-story garage. The remaining eagles are also ranked by their resemblance that day, from left to right. Previously unknown: Every morning, these eagles are fed, then rotated by a robed assistant whose sole duty is to judge which of these regal birds looks most like Jon Hamm on that particular day before placing said eagle on the left-most perch. Four species of eagle: golden, tawny, Spanish Imperial, and short-toed snake. They sit on separate perches in his backyard. ![]() Little-known fact: Jon Hamm owns four eagles. Published in the March 2012 issue, with a special fold-out cover - like so. ![]()
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