Word: blakesburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the Reverend John Whetstone: "It's only an aurora borealis." But most people in the Kentucky mountain town of Blakesburg were terrified. They had never seen or heard of an aurora borealis. Mountain-born and Bible-bred, they thought that the apocalyptic spasms of light which possessed their night sky meant the End of Time. They acted accordingly...
...This is the end of Blakesburg!" shrieked the school principal. "It is the end of Blake County, our State and our Republic! But I shall take the flag of this Republic with me and plant it in the Glory Land where it will bloom forever and forever...
...Blakesburg's Negroes, in the borrowed, freshly laundered autos of Blakesburg's white families, were out at a burial. When they saw the lights, they "didn't want to be accountable for borrowed property. . . . They started stepping on the gas." They brought back to Blakesburg "the smell of burning rubber tires, hot engines with radiators boiling over. . . . And all who hadn't gotten lost or wrecked on the highways hunted for the car owners on the Blakesburg streets. Their hurrying home to go into eternity from their native city was a touching scene to the white...
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