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From (Erie’s) John Oliver to (TV’s) John Oliver: Learn more about Erie, Pennsylvania
VisitErie CEO details the city’s attractions for his television namesake and ‘Last Week Tonight’ host who only knows that ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne’s body was boiled in Erie.
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John Oliver has made a video outlining Erie history and attractions.
No, not that John Oliver.
John Oliver, president and CEO of VisitErie, Erie County’s tourism promotion agency, made the video to tell that other John Oliver, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” a little more about the city.
TV’s John Oliver on Sunday night said that the only thing he knows about Erie is that the body of a Revolutionary War general was boiled here to separate the bones from the flesh.
Yup, as we here in Erie already knew, that was “Mad” Anthony Wayne, and the deed was done so that the general’s son could cart the bones home for burial in eastern Pennsylvania in the small cart he’d brought for the purpose.
Erie’s John Oliver, in his reply shot at the Hagen History Center, near the very kettle that the general was simmered in, summarizes more things to know about the city, including its seven miles of Lake Erie beaches, “some of the best fishing in the country, an amusement park that has been around for more than a century and the largest grape-growing region in the eastern United States.”
The video is a short teaser about all that Erie has to offer.
It’s also an invitation, “from one John Oliver to another to learn more about Erie, Pennsylvania, and even join me for dinner here in Erie.
“For what’s better than one John Oliver but two John Olivers.”
Contact Valerie Myers at vmyers@timesnews.com.