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Gantry had overseen its construction during the previous winter after his return from a buying trip to Savannah. He called it "the cooker." Slaves had asked how it worked, but Gantry was uncharacteristically inscrutable. Instead, he had offered a demonstration three weeks ago, just before the weather turned. Bartholomew had been caught stealing food, and he was sentenced to spend two hours in the box. He thought he had gotten off easy. Upon his exodus, however, the slave declared on wobbly legs that it was "too hot in there fo' the Devil hisself." Bartholomew was not one to pass up a chance at a good yarn, and he said that while in the box, he had heard pounding from down below. "The Devil was openin' hisself a chimney straight from Hell, right into that box." Some believed him; most did not.
Dean Expected To Gain More Strength
Dean strengthened into the Atlantic's first hurricane of the season on Thursday and the center is near St. Lucia and Martinique. Related Content: Hurricane warnings remain in effect for the islands of Dominica and St. Lucia. Hurricane watches were also issued for the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and its dependencies. A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the Lesser Antilles, Grenada and its dependencies, St. Vincent and its... .
Taking modern Broadway on the road
When you make your living playing show tunes at piano bars, sometimes you don't want to hear that "the hills are alive with the sound of music" yet again. Sometimes, you start wishing that those loudmouth hills would, well, hush up. "Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe -- they're all great, but I like to listen to contemporary musicals as well," said pianist Rob Wendel of Wayland. "But there seems to be a freeze-frame. People always request show tunes from the '40s, '50s, and '60s, and then there's this cutoff point once you get to the '80s. No one asks for the newer stuff." Wendel and tenor Steve SanSoucie, who are married, are sure the time warp is not a result of disdain for new Broadway. Rather, they're certain many of us have simply not heard the scores of the great modern musicals "Avenue Q" and "Wicked." So they hatched a plan and now the "Hairspray"-deprived and "Rent"-needy need suffer no more.
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