Author: Paul

Beware the Ides of March…

The building in question here was moved in June, 2018 as detailed here

In 1984, David Foster Wallace was admitted to Grenada House, a mental health facility associated with Harvard University, housed in Building 6. He used his experience there as inspiration for the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House described in-depth in Infinite Jest.

Those who waded through the footnotes to find this before the hint were:

• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• krenek
• Walter_V_R

And after the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Garfield
• Nancy Barbato Sinatra

This one is a little unfair because the building itself was moved across the campus about 9 years after the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.

Harper Lee and Truman Capote grew up together in the small town of Monroeville, Alabama. The old courthouse here was used by both of them as the inspiration for courtroom scenes in their books. For Harper Lee, this was the setting of the trial of Tom Robinson who was accused of rape. Tom was defended by Atticus Finch, the protagonist of the story.

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Friends of Boo Radley who found the site before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• krenek
• Graham Hedley
• MiranDese-12
• Hans1789

And after the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Kiribatian Jacob
• David Kozina
• Hilde Lambeir
• Jesus Rodriguez

Workplace (in the book) of the Greatest Hero of All American Cinema.

In the middle of the Great Depression, a major drought formed in the central plains of the US. The confluence of disasters caused a large number of farmers from states like Oklahoma to give up farming and migrate westward in an effort to find work.

The US government created migrant camps to house these workers as the moved west, and Weedpatch was one of the largest.

The camp plays a fairly major role in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. The Joad family find a short period of respite here where the migrants are treated with a degree of respect.

Those who found it before the hint were:

• Graham Hedley
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Garfield

And after the hint:

• Kiribatian Jacob
• krenek
• hhgygy
• Robin
• Walter_V_R
• Wista
• Hilde Lambeir
• Amanda

A brief respite from the wrath, but no grapes.