Four important characters in Sanctuary ride about half a dozen different trains to get from Yoknapatawpha to Memphis or Oxford. This entry provides a Location for those trips, which probably at times run on the same set of tracks, though that's not entirely clear. Horace Benbow, Clarence and Virgil Snopes, and Fonzo ride different trains between Jefferson and Memphis. Horace also travels by train to Oxford, and on his return trip from there the train makes a stop at the station in Holly Springs.
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The "editor" of the local newspaper also does print jobs, like the handbill advertising the air show that Ginsfarb asks him to print (190). He expresses skepticism about the details of the performance, and when he demands payment in advance - "I ain't in this business for fun," he tells Ginsfarb - the job gets cancelled (191).
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In "Death Drag," Jock goes to see Jones, "the secretary of the Fair Association," for permission to use the air field for a barnstorming show (188). There is no indication of Jones' day job, but his civic title suggests he belongs to the middle class of respectable "groundlings" in the story (188).
When Ruby tells the Sheriff how to get to the Old Frenchman place, she says "you pass Mr Tull's about a mile and turn off to the right" (105), so her directions provided us with the farm's location for this map. The farm plays a minor role in Sanctuary. But "Tull's" is one of the Yoknapatawpha locations that suggest the major difficulty of trying to map an imaginary place.
The "huge" barn, with "broken walls and roof" (42, 46), is about fifty yards behind the Frenchman place. It no longer has any agricultural uses. Tommy hides whiskey in its loft, under "a pile of rotting hay" (47). Pap goes to the bathroom in one of its deserted stalls. And Temple seeks refuge in its "crib" (99). "Crib" is the ordinary term for a space used to store grain or corn, but the word becomes grimly ironic as the setting for Temple's violation.
"The spring" at which the novel begins lies just beside both the road that connects Frenchman's Bend to the world and the drive that leads up to the house. Surrounded by thick undergrowth, it "wells up at the root of a beech tree and flows away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand" (3). Not far from the spring, the drive has been blocked by the tree that Popeye chopped down; it is there that Gowan crashes the car with Temple in it.
Unlike the Old Frenchman Place, the Sartoris place preserves its original grandeur as a plantation mansion, though in Sanctuary "the house that John Sartoris built" (to quote from Flags in the Dust, the text in which it first appears), is lived in only by the Colonel's sister, Jenny Du Pre, his great-grandson's widow, Narcissa, and her ten-year-old son Benbow.
In Sanctuary this "huge" barn, with "broken walls and roof," is about fifty yards behind the Old Frenchman place (42, 46). It no longer has any agricultural uses. Tommy hides whiskey in its loft, under "a pile of rotting hay" (47). Pap goes to the bathroom in one of its deserted stalls. And Temple seeks refuge in its "crib" (99). "Crib" is the ordinary term for a space used to store grain or corn, but the word becomes grimly ironic as the setting for Temple's violation.
"The spring" at which Sanctuary begins - and in which two strangers see each other and themselves - lies just beside the road that connects Frenchman's Bend to the world and the drive that leads up to the house. Surrounded by thick undergrowth, it "wells up at the root of a beech tree and flows away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand" (3). Not far from the spring, the drive has been blocked by the tree that Popeye chopped down; it is there that Gowan crashes the car with Temple in it.
The narrative describes this antebellum mansion (and gothic setting) twice, when Horace arrives at it in Chapter 1 and again when Temple arrives there in Chapter 5. Both descriptions emphasize the decay of a once prosperous plantation into a kind of haunted house. The first description calls it "a gutted ruin" and the second "a gaunt weather-stained ruin" (8, 41).
