Jefferson Railroad Line in Light in August (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2014-09-19 11:42
Text: 
Light in August
Location Key: 
Jefferson Railroad Line
Display Label: 
Train to Jefferson
Map Icon: 
Event
Authority : 
Context (text, as interpreted)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"Knight's Gambit"
"Mule in the Yard"
Flags in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Mansion
The Town
X: 
1222
Y: 
1260
Description: 

Reverend and Mrs. Hightower travel to his new ministry in Jefferson by train. As he "watches the fleeing countryside" outside the "car window," he talks excitedly about his grandfather's Civil War raid on the town (482). The landscape is described as "similar to that where he was born" (482), though when the train nears Jefferson the train slows down to move through "the dingy purlieus" (485).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Railroad Track

digyok:node/location/6610