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Then began the notorious Bataan Death March. Herded by their captors, the prisoners slogged, limped and dragged their comrades through the fierce jungle for 55 miles. Then they were jammed into railroad cars for some farther distance, and finally marched eight more miles to a prison camp...
...black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd of up to 200 well-armed whites gathered up the street. In a panic the driver tried to turn the car around but stalled it on railroad tracks--then the demarcation between black and white neighborhoods. Lillie Belle Allen, a mother of two visiting York from South Carolina, was in the back seat of the car and offered to help the terrified driver. When she got out to wave the crowd off, to tell them not to open...
...statehouse, and the school's environs include tranquil blocks of sweeping antebellum porches and weeping wisteria. About half of Hand's 960 students, many of them well off and white, hail from these streets. The other half, many poor and black, live literally on the other side of the railroad tracks, some in crumbling shanties that didn't have running water until five years...
John Henry Days indeed tackles a great amount of material but without any signs of overreaching or strain. The novel ripples outward from a central event: a three-day festival in Talcott, W.Va., commemorating the legendary black railroad worker who outhammered a steam drill but died in victory. Many of the ballads about John Henry place the epic battle he waged with the machine in nearby Big Bend Tunnel, and Talcott residents hope that John Henry Days will become an annual and tourist-friendly attraction...
Ceaselessly uttered, this hope was endlessly disappointed, but the allure of California never diminished (at least in the eyes of outsiders). Its early 20th century images are full of it, whether in a massive pair of strawberries, ca. 1910, on a railroad flatcar, a view of sublimely twisted eucalypts framing the far sky near Carmel, or in one of Gottardo Piazzoni's classical views that translates the sea pines of his ancestral Italy to the edge of the Pacific...