Liberty, Tennessee
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Liberty is a town in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, Liberty had a population of 334. Liberty's main street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 19
Liberty's Town Hall
The Allen Bluff Mule
Frederick Burr Opper
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Frederick Burr Opper was one of the pioneers of American newspaper comic strips, best known for his comic strip Happy Hooligan. His comic characters were featured in magazine gag cartoons, covers, pol
Liberty, Tennessee
…about 85 years ago. By this account, Dr. Robinson painted the original mule while a 21-year-old college student inspired by Maud the Mule, from the Frederick Burr Opper comic strip And Her Name Was Maud. In 2003, Liberty residents became upset that an expansion of U.S. 70 to a four-lane road could threaten the mule…
Portrait c. 1903
Frederick Opper's Happy Hooligan (October 23, 1921)
Opper's cartoon The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor was an early use of the term fake news
Caricature by Opper 1895 of Germany's Bismarck & Britain's Gladstone as performers on the political stage.