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Methinks it is like an easel
The Civil War Monument of New Zebedee
Located at one end of Main Street was the New Zebedee Civil War Monument, which must have been a sight to see for Lewis. The massive stone object was “shaped like an artist’s easel. Each of the joints and corners of the easel had a soldier or sailor standing on it, threatening the rebel army with a musket or a sword or a cannon swabber or a harpoon.” Along the flat, front part of the easel were the names of Capharnaum County residents who had died in the American Civil War [23-4].
Michigan committed a number of men to the American Civil War. Overall Marshall enlisted well over 700 men meaning that the city’s massive stone monument would have to be pretty large just to encompass all their names.
But here’s the thing: the easel-shaped monument doesn’t exist.
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Commentaries:
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- Aba bēbē bachabē
- Ace of Nitwits
- Aladdin's lamp
- Albertus Magnus
- American Civil War
- Arabian coins
- Artium Baccalaureus (B.A., Bachelor of Arts) (degree)
- Autumn Leaves (weaving pattern)
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- Barlow, Bishop
- Barnavelt aunts
- Barnavelt House (New Zebedee, Michigan) (aka Barnavelt's Folly)
- Barnavelt, Charlie
- Barnavelt, Grampa
- Barnavelt, Jonathan van Olden
- Barnavelt, Lewis
- Fear of Tetanus
- Barnavelt, Mrs. (Lewis' mother)
- Beefeater
- Belgium
- Bendix washer
- Bible (book)
- Big Ben (clock)
- Big Mac khaki trousers
- Bishop Barlow realtors (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von
- Bon Pour Un Franc (inscription)
- Bon Sour One Frank (phrase/game)
- Boy Scout knots
- Brasher doubloon (coin)
- Briggs Stadium (Detroit, Michigan)
- Brush Mush (insult)
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- Cagliostro, Allessandro di
- Capharnaum County (Michigan)
- Capharnaum County Fair (Michigan)
- Capharnaum County Magician’s Society (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Cemetery Hill (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Cheerios (cereal)
- Chess (game)
- Chicago World's Fair (Chicago, Illinois)
- Chichen-Itza (Mexico)
- Chopsticks (song)
- Civil War Monument (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Civil War Monument Annex (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Clabbernong, Elihu
- Clabbernong, Jedediah
- Clark's Super One Hundred Gasoline, jingle for
- Clock, coffin-shaped
- Clock, Doomsday
- Clock, Waterbury eight-day
- Cloud Formations and Other Phenomena Observed From This Window (manuscript)
- Coat rack, enchanted (Barnavelt House)
- Coca-Cola (beverage)
- Corrigan, Mr.
- Corrigan, Mrs.
- Corrigan, Tarby
- Corrigan’s Hardware (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Crown (coin)
- Cunard Line stickers
- Cuticura soap, jingle for
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- Day of Judgement
- Death-watch beetles
- Dee, John
- Demi-culverin (cannon)
- Detention Home (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Detroit Tigers (baseball team)
- Didrachmas (coin)
- Doctor Magicorum Artium (D. Mag.A.) (degree)
- Doll Face (insult)
- Drachmas (coin)
- Ducats (coin)
- Durgy's Pond (New Zebedee, Michigan)
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- Easter Egg (enchanted object)
- Eight Ball (fortune-telling device)
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England
- End of the World
- England
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- Falconet (cannon)
- Fifth Michigan Fire Zouave Lancers
- Flies and grounders (game)
- Florins (coin)
- Fondrighter, Jerold
- Fondrighter, Mrs.
- From a Wigwam (song)
- Frumpy (insult)
- Fuse Box Dwarf
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- Galleon (ship)
- Geez (language)
- Geiger counter
- Göttingen, Germany
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Grouchy, Emmanuel, marquis de
- Guilders (coin)
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- Hag Face (insult)
- Hammerhandle (bum)
- Hanchett family
- Hanchett House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Hand of Glory
- Hardesty's Universal Omnium Gatherum: Perpertual Calendar, Date Book, Almanac, and Book of Days (book)
- Heemsoth’s Rexall Drug Store (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- High Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- History of the World (book)
- Holabaugh, Carl
- Hollister, Maxine
- Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character)
- Holyrood Palace (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Hookah
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- Izard, Isaac
- Izard, Selenna
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- John Deere tractor
- John o'Groats, Scotland
- Johnny's Nightshirt (card game)
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- Kell, George
- Kelly, Michael
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- Laberdeen, Carol Kay
- London, England
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- Mail Pouch (tabacco)
- Main Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Mansion Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mattie, Aunt
- Mayan step pyramid
- Medina-Sidonia, Duke of
- Mexican silver dollar
- Michigan Agricultural College (East Lansing, Michigan)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Minion (cannon)
- Moon (Luna)
- Moth
- Mounds bar
- Mount Everest
- Muggins Simoon (automobile)
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- Napoleon at St. Helena (solitaire card game)
- Napoleon I of France
- Narrow Seas (English Channel)
- Necromancy (book)
- New Zebedee Chronicle (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee County Courthouse (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee Fountain (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee Opera House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee school (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee Waterworks (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- New Zebedee, Michigan
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- Oakridge Cemetery (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Odilon, Bertrand-Jean Redon
- Old Spice talcum powder
- O'Meagher, Mrs.
- Once to Every Man and Nation (hymn)
- Osee Five Hills, Michigan
- Ouija board
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- Palomar Observatory, Mt. (San Diego County, California)
- Pomp and Circumstance (song)
- Pottinger, Rose Rita
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- Regiomontanus (astrologer)
- Ridpath, John Clark
- Rizzio, David
- Roman coin
- Rugbug (dance)
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- Saker (cannon)
- Salada (tea)
- Scotland
- Shekels (coin)
- Shilling (coin)
- Sin-and-Flesh Creek (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Spades, Queen of
- Spanish Armada
- Spit-out-the-Window (card game)
- Spruce Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Stars and Stripes Forever (song)
- Statue of Liberty (football play)
- Stoddard, John L.
- Stoddard's Lectures (book)
- Super Suds (soap), jingle for
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- Ten Commandments
- Terminus Movers, Inc. (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Texaco (cat)
- Ticonderoga No.2 pencil
- Tin soldiers
- Turkoman's Terror (tabacco)
- Twelve Mile Road (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
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- U.S. Highway 9
- University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
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- Walpurgis (April 30)
- Waterloo, Battle of
- Watson, John H. (fictional character)
- Weird Beard (insult)
- Typical Mrs. Zimmermann insult directed toward Uncle Jonathan [13].
- Welch's fudge bar
- Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Wellington, Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of
- Westclox clock
- WGN-AM, Chicago (radio station)
- Wilder Creek (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
- Wilder Creek Bridge (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
- Wilder Creek Park (New Zebedee, Michigan)
- Wilder Creek Road (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
- Wildroot Cream Oil
- Willoware porcelain (umbrella stand)
- Willoware porcelain (vase)
- Window, enchanted stained-glass (Barnavelt House)
- World War II
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- X-ray
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- Lewis remembers that his father once spent an entire afternoon explaining that ghosts were caused by x-rays bouncing off distant planets [27].
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The Books
The Authors
The Series
Adaptations
Annotations
Book Collecting
Book collecting can be an exciting, if not expensive, hobby. Over the years, fans of John Bellairs have discussed the fine art of book finding and buying, specifically those first-edition hardcovers with illustrations by the late Edward Gorey.
Purchase
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