LEFT: Mike Yager explained
to the press and the people in attendance why Fun Fest had to go on for 2001.
september 15, with a message from Mike Yager, owner of Mid-America
Designs in Effingham, Illinois. Sadly, we weren’t there in time. In the
aftermath of the terrorist attacks on America just a few days earlier, our flight
had been canceled the night before. But we got out the next morning and drove
the 107 miles from St. Louis, arriving in Effingham at 12:30 pm.
Immediately,
we circulated through the show grounds to get a feel of the mood. We ran across
Paul and M.J. McConnell from Antioch, Illinois, walking down the fairly crowded
midway. Paul gave us the scoop on Yager’s talk, "It ran parallel to
what was on the Internet, that Corvette is a symbol of America and the people
should
