Word: orchards
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...Imperial,” he was already determined “to return year after year, deepening friendships, exploring sandscapes and ruthlessly studying people’s lives until Imperial became as shockingly bright in my mind as the bands of sunny grass between the aisles of a palm-orchard.” For the next eight years, Vollmann completed “Imperial” doing precisely that. His interests are equally topological and sociological: returns to Imperial not just to research the exact condition of the New River, but to talk to the sad-looking prostitutes...
...bombing mission. By the age of 36, Teddy, as his family called him, had lost three more siblings, including his two remaining brothers, Jack and Bobby, who were killed at the hands of assassins. In 1964, a plane Kennedy was taking to a campaign event crashed into an apple orchard in western Massachusetts. The pilot died, as did Ed Moss, a Kennedy aide. The Senator, then just 32, faced months of recuperation from a serious back injury...
...Number of working class immigrants from more than 20 nations who lived in a single, five-story building—97 Orchard Street—between its construction...
...Year in which the first indoor toilets were installed at 97 Orchard Street...
...Year in which the tenement at 97 Orchard became a National Historic Landmark. It now houses the successful Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which has restored six of the building's original apartments...