Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puzzling for centuries to reconcile his landmarks with the topography of that small Ionian island. Berry Fleming's Fredericksville, Ga. scene of The Fortune Tellers presents no such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community's seamy side and shoddy behavior...
Violent River. There is nothing seamy or shoddy, though, about Fleming's account of Fredericksville's struggle against the Savannah River in full flood. Under the grey smear of incessant rain, its people scrabble heroically for survival behind their leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with...
Bide a Wee. In Savannah, after a funeral-home attendant fled in terror from a snoring corpse, police discovered William Fleming asleep with three bottles of beer beside him, got his story: "I was just trying to find a peaceful place...
...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
Eventually, says the AEC, the fish in the lower Savannah may become a bit radioactive, but not as hot as they would be if the river were less pure...