Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height beginners jump from, 2500 feet, you can free fall for just 17 seconds before you reach the ground. From 2500 feet you can see a couple of hundred miles in all directions. We could see the mountains in three states. We could see the farms, and rivers, and railroad tracks mostly covered with snow which had fallen over the weekend...
After that, I drove over the railroad tracks to see what was left of the ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were...
...very much appreciated, since a player earned from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened teen-agers, were not especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially on nights when the Oilers, say, had bombarded Onion Davis, the invincible lefthander of the Dothan Browns...
...Lightfoot's wandering, musically speaking, is done amid the vast geography and pioneer history of his native country. "I believe there are times when you should return to the soil, at least in your own mind, and when you should live in the past," he says. Canadian Railroad Trilogy evokes a time
...Memory Drum. The company has a long tradition of statistical work, reaching back to horse-and-bug-gy days. The railroad had just pushed across Michigan when a young New Jerseyan named Ralph Lane Polk arrived in Detroit to seek his fortune peddling various patent medicines. He found that the Iron Horse, steaming along at speeds of 40 m.p.h., had changed the world of traveling salesmen, enabling them to visit merchants in several towns in one day. Polk compiled a Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots...