Posted on 05/19/2023 7:32:19 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The National Press Club is probably best known for its White House Correspondent’s Dinner. This site prefers to think of it as the site of the Alferd Packer plaque, a memorial to a cannibal who avoided hanging.
The plaque is rather unassuming, its simple polished brass declaring: “The Alferd Packer Memorial Grill — In Memory of Stan Weston 1931-1984.” Weston was the public affairs officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who came up with a 1977 contest to name the USDA’s new cafeteria. But hold that thought for now.
Packer was born in Pennsylvania in 1842. He made his way west and joined the Union Army in Minnesota, then ambled on into the Rockies as a pioneer after the Civil War. In a particularly stunning feat of incompetence, he and five others separated from a larger expedition and tried to make it across a mountain pass in January 1874. Three months later, Packer arrived on the other side, declaring that he got separated from the other five....
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One place I worked, I put up a sign that said ‘The Alferd Packer Memorial Break Room”.
It stayed up for over three months...
He must have attended C.U. in Boulder. The University Memorial Center restaurant was named the Alferd Packer Grill in 1953.
Well that was a strange one!
I was 1/2 owner of “Packers Place” in the early 80’s. It was located in Saguache, CO. He was held in the jail there.
I was jeeping in the San Juan Mountains in CO a few years ago and we drove up to a strange memorial on the side of a small gravel abandoned mining road. It had some big bleached animal bones laying around it, and some other hilarious stuff. There was also a plaque. It was the Alfred Packer Massacre site.
It’s said the judge at his trial declared “There were only seven Republicans in Hinsdale County and you you man-eating sonofabitch ate four of them.”
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