The bronze gentleman at the right is Titus Bronson, founder of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
He stands guard in the downtown park named for him among what used to be large, majestic trees, now reduced to a pile of splinters.
Bronson Park was one of many casualties of the tornado that swept through Kalamazoo in May 1980.
Yesterday, Illinois saw several such tornadoes. So far the death count is at six. Washington, a little town near Peoria seems to have been the hardest hit.
