This Tender Land - notes - 10/26/20 - William Kent Krueger (Ordinary Grace) Faria 2nd reading Albert Brickman's quiet room narrator is Odie Lincoln Indian Training School Benny Blackwell (Sioux) - The Count of Monte Cristo (source of Faria's name) Thelma Aesop's Fables (Tortoise and the Hare) Odie's Dad's dead Herman Voltz - carpentry shop and assistant boys advisor Miss Stratton taught music Black witch = Thelma harmonica p. 12 Chapter Two Gilead River DiMarco introduced grounds keeper Bledsoe's hay field Albert : smart and handy Emmy Frost introduced - Cora Frost, her mother taught reading, homemaking - Mose, Al' and Odie will work for her 'stead of Bledsoe. "Everyone knew that although Mr. Brickman wore the pants, it was his wife who had the balls p. 17 it's 1932 - Mose signed "Lucky Us" Andrew Frost knew Jim Thorpe personally - killed by harrow (hornets scared Big George) Emmy in coma for two days ... Gilead, Minnesota, Mississippi - Huck Finn parallel - Shenandoah played - Clyde Brickman - Mose left tongueless in the reeds (!) (Washington last name) p. 30 Marshall Windigo scary Halloween story. "and noone saw him again. Ever" p. 31 crapped in ... funny! Mr. Sparks was Black Witch's 1st husband - Voltz has a still - Ozark past - Albert built it - Meet Me in St Louis (Voltz's wife and he met there) - Billy Redsleeve - from Catholic school (molested) - "Indian talk" corncob doll ("girlie thing") - Voltz stops V. DiMarco ... depending not on God but ourselves etc. p. 47 - I barely remember my mother ... p. 49 Boy Scouts sign & oath - crash on Wall Street - foreclosure - Mr Seifert canned - water tower painting - WELCOME TO HELL - storm - Mrs Frost dies - Emmy Ok - God is a tornado - Lavinia Stratton and Odie play Shenandoah ... "That tornado took the wrong woman" (Miss Stratton) - DiM takes the harmonica - photo handed off to Albert - Faria dies - Emmy split - quarry hole - no Brickman - Billy in it .. strap pulled and Vincent DiMarco dies p. 73 Now, canoe out. But get harmonica first (I just remember Boy Scout sign - 3 fingers etc.) - they catch Brickman in bed w/ Miss Stratton! ... "and moral rectitude"! - picture was of Emmy and her parents - Mose signed "why not?" p. 80 Mose threw a perfect pitch p. 82 Part Two - One-Eyed Jack they take off in the canoe - Alice Thru the Looking Glass p. 101 - tell Howard - Emmy gives Odie two $5 for his shoe - we meet Jack, the one-eyed pig scarer - "Clyde Stratton" made up p. 106 Hoover shoes "I'd rather had the Red Wings I said w/ such longings I even felt sorry for me" (!) p. 107 - Pershing boots Puff, sock puppet, is born - Emmy: he's not dead p. 117 (DiMarco?) - they choose the wild pig scarer's place to sleep @! - Mose cries / bad dreams - wild pig scarer may have had a bad experience w/ a woman - drinks a lot - cop shows up at Jack's - we learn of Sophie - who's Aggie? - cheap moonshine offered p. 132 Rudy? - Odie's a great lier - Albert'll build him a still - Norman = Albert Buck = Odie - This beautiful tender land (the pig scarer's words!) p. 150 - Odie kills Jack Part Three - High Heaven we meet Forrest - they split, fearing he was going to turn them in - "Aunt Julia's" letter revealed - Minnesota River - then a beautiful voice Revived - Chapter Twenty-three - Sid is trumpet player p. 192 - Willis saved by Odie's Beautiful Dreamer (Emmy's idea) - Sister Eve says come with us to St. Louis - Albert says they're shills - Emmy's wise - Dimitri introduced p. 205 (Greek cook) - Whisker = Gregory, the piano player - Irving Berlin 32 bar Sid's "business mgr" (per Whisker) - Lucifer the snake - Eve off doing something ... p. 214 - Odie trails Sid ... Lucifer bites Albert p. 232 - vial was anti-venom! - Sister Eve tells her story (her Dad hung himself, Mom killed by him and she dumped in horse trough) - Sister Eve can give Albert faith - Mose: "God is love" Albert lives Part Four - The Odyssey Maybeth - Andrew fixes the Schofield's vehicle - Odie tells more stories then heads out - I think Mr. S. blows the $ on booze ... (I am wrong!) - 1832 massacre of 36 Sioux p. 332 Forrest sends all of them off p. 338 - Agassuz 10000 years ago lake Part Five - The Flats Fort Snelling - Mose knows what soldiers did to his people - they enter Mississippi $5 (two) - no - what's Forrest's real Indian name? - Gertie Hellman John Kelly (Calvin's brother is Forrest) - Gertie's is a community eating place - Shlome Goldstein = John Kelly - St. Paul difficult birth - baby not dead - Flo / Gertie gay - one-eyed Jack not dead, reformed - they're offered jobs working on the tug boat - Odie doesn't want to not keep going to St. Louis - all but Odie want to stay in the Flats etc. p. 388 Part Six - Ithaca Odie, on his own, heads to St. Louis $10 used, he gets away Ch 59 p. 401 Arrives in St. Louis! - he meets Dolores - whore house - Rosalee ("mother") Zeke, dad p. 414 p. 417 "Forgive me" Dollie tells all - Gideon healing Crusade - "You said to pray for forgiveness" p. 422