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...later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey state forest near Camden...
...over the nation at the ancestral home most had never seen or even heard of until Redford contacted them. They are, says Redford, "people who have never truly been home before." The Aug. 30 gathering comes exactly two centuries after 80 slaves arrived from Africa aboard the brig Camden to help carve from the swamp a plantation where as many as 328 slaves would eventually labor...
...four years later, still hoping to produce a major work, he had in mind something he referred to as his 'magnum opus.' And in 1934 he seems to have made at least one concerted attempt to get it under way. In mid-January 1934 he went to Camden, S.C., to the same resort hotel he had been taken to by his father in 1911. He went there 'to work on a piece away from the distractions of office and home.' But while he was there he saw a polo match, made friends with a fox terrier...
...most dramatic story was of Rozier's last high school game, Thanksgiving weekend, the climax of an unusual season in Camden abbreviated by a gang war. That fall, the Wheels of Soul and the Ghetto Riders bore a certain grudge against each other. The leader of the Wheels had a relative playing for Camden and was not inclined to miss a game. "At the beginning of the third quarter, the shooting broke out," Rozier says. "It sounded like caps at first. Then there was smoke. We all hit the dirt. Both teams were face down around...
...phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much of the U.S. it may not survive the end of the decade. "They're obsolete," says Historian Oscar Handlin, who teaches a course in popular culture at Harvard. "Their decline is a sign that a certain stage in American life...