Three shuttered houses haunt the torrential night
Clint Jervies reluctantly settles on a gloomy Hill estate where three shuttered houses house Denman Harder Ella Kenesaw Kitty Seaford June and relatives Aunt Evie Taine Uncle Justus Rab and Asa Bowden plus a mysterious Uncle Jim. As Kitty retires with a headache the three families gather for a strained, unsettling Saturday.
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Clint Jervies
Clint
Mana
Denman Harder
Ella Kenesaw
Kitty Seaford
June
Evie Taine
Justus
Rab
Asa
Old
Bowden
Jim
Hardler
Kitty
Night in the Mausoleum Aboard a Quiet House
Rab presses for a nighttime outing for June and Kitty while Kitty clings to sleep, drugs, and ritual. June secretly oversees her mother’s morphine tablets, fearing the danger as the house quiets and a tense foreboding grows.
Dead Mother Sparks Night of Terror and Rescue
June Seaford discovers her mother Kitty Seaford dead after a night of storms and alarms. Jane races through rain to Doctor Cabler for help, encountering a mysterious car and danger before confirming the grim news. The scene ends with the revelation and a religious meditation on resurrection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
June
Kitty Seaford
Mrs. Seaford
Kitty Leaford
Grandpa
Grandma Harder
Justus
Doctor Cabler
Rab
Asa
June in a restless night under looming storm
June moves through a bleak, stifling world as she recalls Uncle Jim and family nicknames. She worries her mother who sleeps drugged, and as thunder cracks the night, June rises to check if she is awake and cowers.
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June
Uncle Jim
Jane
Grandma Bowdon
Evie
Grandma
Grandpa
Kitty Seaford
Hidden Roman Nursey Site Still Proudly Stands
A little hut in Rome, famed as the cradle of Romulus and Remus, survives amid famed sites. The legendary she-wolf nursed the twins on the Tiber banks and carried them to a lair where they were nourished before founding Rome and dividing the Sabine lands.
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Romulus
Remus
She-Wolf
Rome
Colosseum
Forum
Pantheon
Andre Simonpietri
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sistine Chapel
Michael Angelo
Raphael
St. Peter's Basilica
Caracalla
Mussolini
Holy Father
Tiber
Sabine Hills
Native Sporting Dog Emerges From Chesapeake Bay History
The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is described as the only native American sporting dog. The breed traces to a Maryland origin after an English brig wrecked near the coast and two Newfoundland puppies were rescued and bred with Maryland hounds. By 1885 a robust retriever type was developed capable of hundreds of ducks daily in Chesapeake Bay waters.
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Chesapeake Bay
England
American Wildlife Institute
Maryland
Gardening as the Highest Human Pleasure in Francis Bacon's View
The quote argues that God planted the garden as a supreme pleasure and spiritual refreshment. It asserts that without gardens, buildings lack refinement and that gardening represents a higher form of human achievement compared to architecture.
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Francis Bacon
Towels with Gay Fruit Motifs Pattern 6037
Add color to the kitchen with fruit motifs in applique and cross stitch. Pattern 6037 includes transfer patterns six motifs about 4 by 10 inches with color ideas and supplies. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York for pattern 6037 with name and address.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
West 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Split Stone With Water in Mokattam Quarry
Visitors to Egypt witness a unique method at the Mokattam stone quarry where stone slabs weighing several tons are split without metal tools. Workers follow ancient pyramid-era techniques, inserting wooden pegs into holes and swelling them with water to crack the stone along its grain into desired shapes.
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Egypt
Mokattam
Pyramids
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Juné
Cabler
Uncle Justus
Denman
Ben Ames Williams
Paul
Christ
Tennyson
Jesus
Barnabas
Antioch
Pisidia
Jesus Christ
Israel
David
God
Bey
Barol
Lumpquist
Moodyle Institute
Chica
Western Newspaper Union
M. Quited Products CO
Ridgeville
Ind
Treaside
Edgbanss
Calif
Saat
Fiene Hasan
Ake
Addison
Benjamin Franklin
Doan
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