ms. patrick, thanks for joining the newshour. ms. hank you so much, as always, for joining the "newshour". you heard it, voice mails, text messages where people are threatening election officials lives, even their children's lives. it seems beyond the pale. is this something you ever experienced as an election official? >> happy election day. thankfully it wasn't something that i experienced in my more than a decade of being a local election official, but i will tell you that this is something i have been hearing more and more frequently in the last six, seven, eight, nine months, and far too often we're getting targeted of the election officials that conducted that election freely and fairly, and this is absolutely exemplary of what i'm hearing from all across the country, in places where the former president won, in places where the current president won. >> you're hearing about election officials of all levels either quitting or retiring out of just these threats worrying them and their families. what do you worry will be the conse

patrick mentioned thanksgiving football games -- ms.atrick mentioned thanksgiving football games. i am thankful i played in a rivalry that is over 100 years old between westberg and -- massachusetts. i am sad they are not playing this game because southbridge was unable as i have been told to field a football team. this is a great rivalry. we had john fitzgerald, center for the dallas cowboys, played in this game. it's a great tradition. i'm just happy i played for it. host: is this a local turkey bowl? caller: no, it's a thanksgiving tradition. when i played in 1968, we had 10,000 people. webster, massachusetts was a big male down. -- mill town. we had the largest optical company in the world. when i was in school, i knew a cheerleader and three of them went over to the neighboring town. they had a cinderblock thrown through the back window. i mean, this is how vicious or how contentious the rivalry is. i mean, i don't think latin boston and english plays anymore. i'm just glad to be in this country. we have our problems. we've always

ms. o'leary animate the great-granddaughter, and a suburban matron, and her said the famous none of the five children, james patrick, big jim o'leary became a gambling divorce and he built a mansion, not far from where his parents lived and it is now for sale, very run down, 17 bedrooms and whatever and the real estate said that it was built for his mother. she died when he was 25 or 26, the house was built after that so that part is untrue. but then he was a wealthy and colorful figure in the city. that's very much true the house was his is very much true but he did not build it for her as far as i know she never lived in it. >> in his place which was near the stock yards burn gavin when it burned down, and with my dad as well, while i was covering events, he was at the university of chicago occurring that any told me is because i never got into the newspaper. and whether it was fanciful or not you're going to love this and it was a huge huge fire in chicago, really damaging maybe second only to this big fire. >> the huge stockyard fires mean the one in before. 34. >> people that the story in the tribune and as a