![]() In 1872, John Cozad set out on the Union Pacific Railroad across the United States. Want to listen to an audio-only version of this lecture? Listen now on Soundcloud. John worked the steamboats down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Scott Reynolds Nelson teaches history at the College of William & Mary. This lecture complemented the VMHC exhibition Organized Labor in Virginia. It is also the story of work songs, songs that not only turned Henry into a folk hero but also, in reminding workers to slow down or die, were a tool of resistance and protest. In his book, Nelson pieces together the biography of the real John Henry. There, at the Lewis Tunnel, Henry and other prisoners worked alongside steam-powered drills. Ridin’ The Rails: The Great American Train Story. Folklorists have long thought John Henry to be mythical, but historian Scott Nelson has discovered that he was a real person-a nineteen-year-old from New Jersey who was convicted of theft in a Virginia court in 1866, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, and put to work building the C&O Railroad. His novel Society of Ghosts was recently released from Bold Venture Press in 2021.According to the ballad that made him famous, John Henry did battle with a steam-powered drill, beat the machine, and died. Two months after Exploding Memoir's release, Strike died in September 2018 after a long bout with cancer. Strike used San Francisco and Tangier as frequent locales, utilizing both in Name of the Stranger, his homage to the atmospheric works of Patricia Highsmith. The resulting destruction derails a work train, which the Cheyenne party. Like much of his work, the story was equal parts biography and fiction, but it was never easy to tell where one left off and the other picked up. Cavalrymen led by Colonel John Chivington slaughter 150 unarmed Cheyenne and. The Exploding Memoir, was released from Bold Venture Press in July 2018. In 2008, Rudos and Rubes published his short story collection, A Loud Humming Sound Came From Above, illustrated by Richard Sala. His writing has appeared in Ambit magazine, Headpress Journal, and Pulp Adventures. Those locales would figure prominently into his fiction, particularly Name of the Stranger and Murder in the Medina. He traveled extensively with extended stays in Morocco, Mexico, and Thailand. Strike also interviewed Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri, Herbert Huncke. It recounts the adventures of a proto-punk mod-turning-glam in post-hippie San Francisco with an underground band called WolfSnake, the first to wear all black in that multicolored scene. Johnny Cash guides us through the history of the great American railways, while performing some of his most famous train-related songs. Fans of good writing will want to read his last book, The Exploding Memoir, published just before he died. Ridin' the Rails: The Great American Train Story: Directed by Nicholas Webster. Burroughs. Born Gary John Bassett, Johnny Strike was as prolific a writer as he was performer. Headpress published Strike’s first novel in 2004, Ports of Hell, with a blurb by William S. Though he wrote several noirish novels and short stories, he was known to music fans as a songwriter, guitarist and singer for the proto-punk band Crime, based in San Francisco. Crime digest magazines, like Manhunt and Justice, and film noir appealed to his fiction writing sensibilities. Born Gary John Bassett, Johnny Strike (1948-2018) was an American writer influenced by hardboiled fiction of the 1950s. ![]()
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