Sentences with phrase «local folk heroes»

The people of the area are still annoyed at Creek and Long — «the Gestapo,» as one housewife calls them — and John Arambel has become a local folk hero.

A jaguar that prowled the Santa Rita Mountains became something of a local folk hero.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.