Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2014-02-07 15:21
This is one of the first people to arrive at the airfield after the plane appears over town. The fact that he arrives in a wagon and not a car suggests that he might be a farmer; the fact that he descends from the wagon and approaches the airplane suggests his curiosity.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2014-02-07 15:01
The three barnstormers in "Death Drag" take their unlicensed airplane to various small towns across the country and charge for air shows featuring the Death Drop and the Death Drag, with Ginsfarb performing the stunts, Jock flying the plane, and Jake driving the car into which Ginsfarb drops. None of the towns are named in the story, so this location is both representative and speculative. The dare-devils have to perform in small towns because such places are unlikely to check their aviation licenses.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2014-02-07 14:55
This location represents the small town where a forced landing on July 4, 1929, cost Jock his pilot's license. The text does not say where this town was, so its placement here is speculative, but it does say what happened: with a plane full of people who paid for a chance to fly, an engine failure forced him to land abruptly; when one of the passengers struck a match next to a broken gas line, the whole group perished in the fire.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2014-02-07 14:50
The three barnstormers in "Death Drag" take their airplane to various small towns across the country and charge for air shows featuring the Death Drop and the Death Drag, with Ginsfarb performing the stunts, Jock flying the plane, and Jake driving the car into which Ginsfarb drops. None of the towns are named in the story, so this location is both representative and speculative. The dare-devils have to perform in small towns because such places are unlikely to check their papers.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2014-02-07 14:46
This location represents the small town where a forced landing on July 4, 1929, cost Jock his pilot's license. "Death Drag" does not say where this town is; it could be any of the various small towns where the barnstormers put on their air show. But it does say what happened: with a plane full of people who paid for a chance to fly, an engine failure forced him to land abruptly; when one of the passengers struck a match next to a broken gas line, the whole group perished in the fire.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2014-02-05 15:36
The spring that is located "down the hill" from Joby's cabin on the Sartoris plantation ("The Unvanquished," 148) is a memorable scene of reflection for two different members of the extended Satoris family. In Flags in the Dust it "flows from the roots of a beech" in the woods. Shaken after Yankee soldiers appear at the plantation and chase Colonel Sartoris away, his son Bayard goes down to this spring.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2014-02-05 11:05
When the Union soldiers arrive at the Sartoris plantation to retrieve the stolen mules, Ringo is drawing a picture of the mansion "like it used to be" before it was burned by the Union army in "Raid." Its current condition is described as follows: "the chimneys rose out of the pile of rubble and ashes. Grass and weeds had come up out of the ashes now, and unless you knew better, all you saw was the four chimneys" (88).
