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...Jonas it means much more. When creepy railroad tycoon J.P. Stiles (Scott Glenn) offers the towns people $50 an acre for their land, only Jonas stands up to question the shady deal. Stiles' thugs hunt him down and shoot him, but Jonas manages to pass the deed to the farm on to his son. Miserable, Daniel runs out to the family boat and cries himself to sleep. Obviously, the Hacketts are farmers and not sailors since the gentle bobbing of the boat unlaces the feebly-tied mooring rope, setting Daniel adrift down the river...
John Henry is the quintessential railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
Long Island Railroad gunman Colin Fergusontoday was sentenced to six consecutive life prison terms for killing six passengers on a crowded commuter train. Judge Donald Belfi capped three days of wrenching court statements from enraged survivors of the 1993 shooting spree by also heaping on sentences of 8 to 25 years in prison for each of the 19 additional people injured by Ferguson's fire. "You, Colin Ferguson, will never again return to society," Belfi said. In a rambling statement before the sentencing, Ferguson compared himself to the martyred saint John the Baptist. "He was beheaded by a criminal justice...
...were told they were taking a posture photo," Knight says. "We were told Professor Hooton was designing a new railroad seat," he adds...
...Quartet next presented "The Drinking Gourd," the final movement of Marty Ehrlich's String Quartet (1993). According to Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...