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it took a long noght and a really long time but i have found approkimations on what each town in the Alvin series relates to.
City in series : City in real life __________________________________ first obvious New amsterdam : New york City Luther : Baltimore Camelot : Charlston (Came from book) Now the harder ones Franklin : Knoxville Vigor Church : Lafayette Dekane : Pittsburg Carthage City : Cincinnati Santa Isabela : Tampa Last and sertenly not least Hatrack : Youngstown
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I have copies of the first 5 books combined into 2 large ones. They have nice maps of the country and cities. Do the regular books have them as well?
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I seem to recall OSC himself saying that Hatrack River wasn't made after a 'specific' town, rather it was designed so that it could be a number of locations in that area.
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Good work on most of them. Nueva Barcelona is New Orleans. But Hatrack does not correspond to ANY existing town. It's wholly made up.
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tater, I can think of worse ways to spend time... at least it is a good review of some geography.
Was the tower of water at the lake on lake michigan? or was it lake huron, i dont remeber... and was 8 faced mound referred to as being in flint, michigan? or did I just make that up in my head? (I used to live near flint michigan, and would find hundreds of arrowheads in the woods behind my house.)
I am still a bit curious about 8 face mound. The only thing my research has ever lead me to was an octagonal mound in OHio (currently a golf course). and I've looked at that spot through the sat images in google maps. The mounds that I have seen of that structure shown the mounds of the spot to not be very high.
Are we to think that it is the same place, but image that the mounds are much higher to constitute the "getting lost" inside as well as to constitute them "climbing" one of the faces of the mound(or where 2 faces meet).
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