King Kon 2018

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Alexandra M

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...if it doesn't arrive soon, fire me off your addy again-and I will stick another in the mail....

GNTLGNT
We will wait a while. I have saw mail from U.S. take 6 to 8 weeks.
Thanks for the offer, very nice of you. :smile:
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...if it doesn't arrive soon, fire me off your addy again-and I will stick another in the mail....

GNTLGNT
We will wait a while. I have saw mail from U.S. take 6 to 8 weeks.
Thanks for the offer, very nice of you. :smile:
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
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Cambridge, Ohio
...the last day of our visit-I took Tracy for a lighthouse look-see as I'd promised....ended up at Fort Point in Stockton Springs, ME....below are the lighthouse and also the bell house....
 

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hossenpepper

Don't worry. I have a permit!!!
Feb 5, 2010
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Wonderland Avenue
Hi hoss... Yes. We did speak briefly. Both of us were rushed.
Lots of people at the Jade. Therefore, I'm not too crushed
That you don't remember me from any FaceTime sessions...
'though I clearly need to work on making first impressions.
:dispirited:
Smeej, I didn't realize it was you.
It was hard to hear what was what
and who was who.
I tried to discern without much luck,
So I just smiled and said what the...
 
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A state of denial, mostly, if you think I'm footing that bill! ;)

Aside from Maine, Colorado and parts of Florida, Pittsburgh and western PA is one of SK's favorite settings for his fiction. Libertyville from Christine is a fictionalized suburb of Pittsburgh. SK and son Joe stayed in Monroeville during the shooting of Creepshow, where SK lived for 2 months and wrote the unpublished "The Cannibals" which later became "Under The Dome". (Monroeville is also home to the shopping mall where George Romero shot Dawn of the Dead).

There are several Creepshow shooting locations including the CMU building where that great segment "The Crate" was shot. "The Dark Half" was shot around here, as well as the George Romero film Knight Riders which SK had a cameo in.

The restaurant at the top of the incline ride in Pittsburgh has been in a funny SK anecdote, where he was asked by the bathroom attendant for his autograph while he was uh, occupied in the men's room stall.

Local Pittsburgh author Stuart O'Nan, a great talent in his own right, was a co-author of a book with SK, "Faithful", and wrote SK inspired "The Speed Queen" about a woman on death row who is a Stephen King fan.

Further north you have the fictional settings of "From a Buick 8". I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.

And don't forget when 'Jaunt Iggle' get a shoutout in DT:VII! Are you from Pgh fushingfeef?
 

Coolallosaurus

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Hello KingCon 2018 folks! I'll preface this by saying I'm not sure if I should post this here or start a new thread, Mod?
I recently got funding for a very short research trip in Orono, Maine for my King course and an article I'm working on. Since this year's KingCon was in Maine I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for food/sights to see/good bookstores that they particularly loved during the 2018 gathering (it seems like everyone had a blast!). I'll be researching most of the day, but imagine I will have some downtime to get around a bit.
 

Nomik

Carry on
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Hello KingCon 2018 folks! I'll preface this by saying I'm not sure if I should post this here or start a new thread, Mod?
I recently got funding for a very short research trip in Orono, Maine for my King course and an article I'm working on. Since this year's KingCon was in Maine I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for food/sights to see/good bookstores that they particularly loved during the 2018 gathering (it seems like everyone had a blast!). I'll be researching most of the day, but imagine I will have some downtime to get around a bit.
Definitely Dysart’s truck stop (eat breakfast there) the standpipe, the barrens, the Pet Semetary cemetery, the Oriental Jade...
Also, get in touch with Robert Gray ! They moved to Maine because they are Stephen King fans and have a gorgeously renovated church that is now a home with a viewing room! He’d be happy to give you the fifty cent tour for free. There is the Derry Public Works building but tread lightly because it’s now a rehab house if sorts. The residents get cranky. Visit Gerald Winters store but maybe rake out a second mortgage if you plan to purchase anything there. Love Gerald and the store but it’s wayyyyy out of my budget!
Robert can give you context on everything.