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Small Town American: Picturing Thomas Covenants Home Town
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:25 pm
by hue of fuzzpaws
Can any one recommended either books about small town america (ones with plenty of photos in) or any websites about small town America, as I have never been really successful in visualizing TC home town.
Many thanks in advance.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:13 am
by [Syl]
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:16 am
by The Laughing Man
near where I live. Haven Farm anyone?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:14 am
by Relayer
ayy-up!
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:37 pm
by emotional leper
Spot on. In certain areas of the south you can drive around and every now and then you'll see a chimney standing in the middle of nowhere. Some of them date back to Sherman's march, if you're in the right spot.
Goes to show how much we like change.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:11 pm
by iQuestor
Emotional Leper wrote:Spot on. In certain areas of the south you can drive around and every now and then you'll see a chimney standing in the middle of nowhere. Some of them date back to Sherman's march, if you're in the right spot.
Goes to show how much we like change.
that damned Sherman.. I ain't fergettin'!
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:31 pm
by [Syl]
Good, except the road to Haven Farm in unpaved.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:42 pm
by The Laughing Man
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:05 pm
by drew
who is Sherman?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:28 pm
by A Gunslinger
lucimay wrote:who is Sherman?
General William Tecumseh Sherman? Sherman's march to the sea?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea
and here's a picture of downtown Lake Mills WI, a small Covenant-esque town:
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:36 pm
by matrixman
Ah, yes, and it even shows the intersection. All that's missing is a cop car. "Covenant fell HERE."
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:56 pm
by thefirst
I've lived in half a dozen small towns that look so much like that one, it's ironic really. I live in one now, except, this one's even smaller.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:25 am
by emotional leper
I always pictured the town TC lives in as looking like one of the small towns outside Spartanburg, SC. Like Clinton or Cross Anchor. There are certainly enough Sherrif Lytons there.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:29 am
by drew
It would have to be small enough that most everybody knows everybody.
but big enough that a wierd looking begger, and a small religious cult don't seem all that out of place.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:16 am
by emotional leper
drew wrote:It would have to be small enough that most everybody knows everybody.
but big enough that a wierd looking begger, and a small religious cult don't seem all that out of place.
So, uh, it's Ocala, Florida, then?
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:42 am
by drew
Okay.
I was thinking of Bible Hill Nova Scotia.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:08 am
by Rocksister
We still have two years and nine months to kill, folks. So I plan to change my avatar as much as possible to fill some of the void.
I too lived in small towns like that which was described in the First Chronicles as TC's home. So it was pretty easy to picture it in my mind as I read along. The genius of SRD at work again.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:53 pm
by Relayer
I know we had a discussion on "where is Haven Farm" but couldn't find a thread for it. Seems like a good place to post this...
From the GI:
SRD wrote:"My" Haven Farm was in New Jersey.
(08/18/2010)
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:09 pm
by wayfriend
Google maps shows a Haven's Farm, Brick, New Jersey.
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:10 pm
by Ur Dead
drew wrote:who is Sherman?
If you don't want to read about his lifestory:
Basicly he was a urban renew contractor who tore down alot of old houses and caused a housing boom in the south..
about a 150 years ago or so.
He's still talked about.
