Municipal workers from the nearby town of Exeter climb the pole to clear away the nest and remove the siren altogether. Bits of tinfoil, bottle caps, a key glint amid the straw — the shiny things that crows collect. And a tiny silver charm. A name.
Claire.
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Lyrics from “This Land Is Your Land,” words and music by Woody Guthrie. TRO © Copyright 1956 (Renewed) 1958 (Renewed), 1970 and 1972. Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, NY. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Whatever Will Be Will Be” by Raymond B. Evans and Jay Livingston. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Swinging on a Star” by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Moon River” by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Button Up Your Overcoat.” From Follow Thru. Words and music by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. Copyright © 1928 by Chappell & Co., Stephen Ballentine Music Publishing Co. and Henderson Music Co. Copyright renewed. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
The epigraph to “Welcome to Centralia” is from Camelot. Words by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe. Copyright © 1960 by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Copyright renewed. Chappell & Co. owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
Jack’s thought, “God watches over your first solo, after that you’re on your own,” comes from Royal Canadian Air Force lore recounted in Ted Barris, Behind the Glory. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1992.
The epigraph to “Here’s to Being Above It All” comes from “Organization Theory: An Overview and an Appraisal,” Journal of the Academy of Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (April 1961). Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management.
The epigraph to “The Mayflower” comes from “How America Feels” (Gallup survey), Look, January 5, 1960.
Lyrics from “Unforgettable” by Irving Gordon. Used by permission.
The epigraph to “How Sweet It Is” comes from Heloise, Heloise’s Kitchen Hints. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1963.
The poem that begins “Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth” is “High Flight” written in 1941 by John Gillespie Magee Jr., an American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
The Dion song quoted is “The Wanderer,” composed by Ernest Peter Maresca.
The Time magazine quotes that Jack reads are from August 31, 1962, Canada edition, Vol. LXXX, No. 9.
Excerpts from Madeleine’s Girl Next Door reader come from W. W. Bauer, Gladys G. Jenkins, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dorothy W. Baruch (eds.), The Girl Next Door. Toronto: Gage, 1952.
Wernher von Braun’s mother’s comment, “Why don’t you take a look at Peenemünde? Your grandfather used to go duck hunting up there,” is quoted in Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
The epigraphs to “Oktoberfest” and “Duck and Cover” come from Doris Anderson’s editorials in the July 1962 and February 1962 issues of Chatelaine, respectively.
The rhyme that begins “There was a turtle and his name was Bert” is from “Duck and Cover,” an educational film produced in 1951 by Archer Productions, Inc. and sponsored by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration.
President John F. Kennedy’s comments regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis are taken from his television address of October 22, 1962.
The epigraphs to “I Cannot Tell a Lie” and “Flexible Response” come from transcripts quoted in Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.
Lyrics from “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” by Pete Seeger © Copyright 1961 (renewed) by Sanga Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Norman DePoe’s comment regarding the easing of tensions surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis was made on CBC’s Newsmagazine on October 28, 1962.
The epigraphs to “Indian Summer” and “Requiem” come from Mary Eleanor Thomas, Developing Comprehension in Reading. Toronto: J. M. Dent, 1956.
Lyrics from “Bei Mir Bist du Schon.” Original words by Jacob Jacobs. Music by Sholom Secunda. English version by Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin. Copyright © 1937; Renewed 1965 Cahn Music Company (ASCAP) and Warner/Chappell (ASCAP). Rights for Cahn Music Company administered by Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Inc. and DreamWorks Songs. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
Lyrics from “Sloop John B.” by Brian Wilson © 1966, renewed New Executive Music. Used by permission.
The epigraph to “Sleeping Dogs” is reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group from The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi. Translated by Rayond Rosenthal. English translation Copyright © 1988 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
The epigraph to “Flying Up” comes from The Brownie Handbook. Toronto: Girl Guides of Canada, 1958.
Excerpts from Walt Disney’s copyrighted feature film BAMBI used by permission from Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Excerpts from Walt Disney’s copyrighted BAMBI Story Record are used by permission from Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Froelich’s lines “When I saw Dora, it was no longer a mystery how the pyramids were built,” “I have a trick. I imagine that I have lived before these experiences,” and “I heard once two secretaries from the office, one to say to her friend, ‘Hurry up, you miss the legs’” are paraphrased from Jean Michel’s descriptions of his own reaction to Dora in Jean Michel, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners Died. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.
Simon’s line “I heard one say he’d trade the whole pack of these former Nazis to the Soviets for a dish of caviar” comes from a remark attributed to an American officer quoted in Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
The epigraph to Part Four, “What Remains,” comes from Primo Levi, “Lead.” In The Periodic Table. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
The epigraph to “And That’s the Way It Is” comes from T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land.” In The Waste Land and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.
Lyrics from “What a Wonderful World” by George David Weiss and Robert Thiele © 1968, renewed. Published by Abilene Music, Range Road Music and Quartet Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The Marianne Faithfull song quoted is “Broken English,” composed by Marian Evelyn Faithfull, Joe Mavety, Barry Reynolds, Terence Philip Stannard and Stephen David York.