Ohio (Location Key)

Ratliff mentions "Ohio" in The Hamlet when he's talking with people in Frenchman's Bend about "the Northerner" who wants to create a goat farm in Yoknapatawpha - he includes "Ohio" and, for example, "Boston, Maine" as a way to represent 'the North' as a different kind of place than "this country" - i.e. Yoknapatawpha, or the South (87, 89). In The Town, Ohio is where Matt Levitt is from, where he won the Golden Gloves and where he attended the "new Ford mechanic's school" (192). The novel doesn't say where in Ohio, however. The Town also mentions the Ohio airfield where young Bayard Sartoris dies testing an experimental "aeroplane" (125); Flags in the Dust locates this field - which has its own entry in the index - specifically in Dayton, Ohio.