Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trucks and trailers, surrounded by the highway signposts, the concrete dividers and huge green directional signs, we could only imagine the blood-soaked land we were passing through. Still, certain places with history caught us in their web so that we experienced more than our seatbelted cocoon. Just beyond Chattanooga was the battlefield of Chickamagua, where my great-great-grandfather was killed in 1863, leading his unit of a Wisconsin Norwegian regiment...
...mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would you like a shoe shine?" The movie is haunted...
Reed himself admits that he has more in common with Calvin Coolidge than with Dionysus. Bacchanalian plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California...
Unused railroad stations have provided a bonanza for thematic restaurateurs. In Chattanooga, Tenn., for example, when Motel Operator Allen Casey heard that the Southern Railway terminal was about to be razed, he put together $2.4 million to buy the gracious old building, which boasts one of the highest freestanding domes (85 ft.) in the world. The Chattanooga Choo Choo, as it is now called, has 2,000 seats and food that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination...
During spring vacation break this year the Kuumbas went South and entertained in Atlanta, Georgia; Lynchburg, Virginia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. and Chapel Hill, N.C., the locations of schools whose choirs usually make sojourns North to display their talent at schools like Harvard. The choir has also toured the Midwest the past two years, drawing raves from college and church audiences...