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This book draws connections between Vermont author Howard Frank
Mosher and works of classic American literature. Chapter I explores
the horrors of the Civil War as conveyed in Mosher's Walking to
Gatlinburg and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Major
characters escape the battlefield and then feel a need to redeem
themselves for what could be a cowardly act. Chapter II analyses
how Mosher and three classic authors explore the physical and moral
dangers of industrialisation, especially women's safety. Chapter
III compares Mosher's Walking to Gatlinburg to Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress in terms of the quest for Heaven. In Chapter IV,
Melville's novels are used to address evil as it appears in
Mosher's Disappearances. Chapter V explores black men with white
women in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mosher's A Stranger
in the Kingdom. Humour is at the core of Chapter VI, comparing Mark
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to Mosher's The True Account. In Chapter
VII, the disappearing wilderness is the issue in Faulkner's Go
Down, Moses and several of Mosher's works. Chapter VIII offers
romantic love as a shield against other human beings. A conclusion
draws on Steinbeck, Twain and Mosher to elaborate on how one should
explore as much of the world as possible.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and
business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as
Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame
houses and ""substandard"" conditions such as outdoor toilets,
voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped.
Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely
because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's
displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses, and
the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The
interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal.
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