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Where is Jim Brown - I have a lot of brick streets to lay
I'm spending a lot of time on the streets at the moment. And I will confess to being a little concerned about how much still lies ahead of me.
"The road goes ever on and on..." Tolkien wrote and when I look at my plan of Green Town Illinois and consider how many miles of brick streets there are to model; "on and on" is about right if you multiply that by the nth degree.
The Buildings of Green Town Illinois
I have a confession to make. I like lists. Always have probably always will.
I like to catalogue and I like to plan. I'm one of those sad people who love spreadsheets and I can still remember the thrill I had when I first started writing databases.
Even as a boy I kept them. A list of all the books I had read, started in the back of a large red diary that I still have tucked away in a box somewhere. Throughout the years I have added to this list with every book I have read. It migrated across to journals and then a spreadsheet and now an Access database. There's a large number of Ray Bradbury books on that list, most of which have multiple entries.
I Found Ray Bradbury
I went into one of the local model shops yesterday to find an S or O scale figure to use as a statue on my N Scale Green Town Railway. There is a triangular space where Glen Rock runs between Washington and Park which I knew would be a small grassed area and I thought a statue would be a fitting focal point there.
Music and Modelling
"Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonder, sit and think?"
Green Town Illinois Railroad
Where does this start?
With a boy called Douglas Spaulding who is mostly Ray Bradbury but really is every boy, and it begins with a summer when he discovered how much magic and tragedy the world could hold in a place called Green Town Illinois in a book called Dandelion Wine. The year is 1928 and there is a trolley that sparks its way around town for a few chapters at least until its final ride.
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