Cornstalk

There is an eerie, small town that seems to have come straight out of a horror story. This horrific town known as Deadman’s Paradise is always gloomy, sullen in the same way grim. It’s as if this town has never been visited by the sun. The only sources of outside light in the entire town are street lamps that constantly flicker. Most of the town residents stay inside their whole life besides occasional trips to the local grocery store. Any travelers passing by this town are given the impression that it is a deserted and sinister ghost town. The residents of this town are mostly normal but there seems to be a mysterious phenomenon that affects a few people every month. This unexplained event makes the victim speak in tongues while they scurry in an uneasy fashion into the cornfield located in the center of the town. Dominique and Maddy have been lucky so far avoiding this strange phenomenon for as long as they’ve lived here. Since they have not experienced this event they believe it is just a rumor. They’re a young couple that have been together for a few years and are madly in love. Dominique is a fairly tall man standing at a colossal six feet and four inches with a golden brown tan. He has light brown hair the same color as Maddy’s hair. Maddy has fair skin but is very short standing at only five feet tall. On one especially menacing night Dominique has to comfort Maddy until she falls asleep because of how superstitious she is about the unnatural occurrences that happen…

Billy, Bobby, and the Cornstalk Once upon a time, there was a family of three consisting of a father named Jeff and two twin boys named Billy and Bobby. This family was very poor and lived in a trailer park in a small town in Iowa. Jeff was widowed when his wife Edna disappeared when the boys were very little. They were living paycheck to paycheck and were desperate for ways to get money. Both boys worked after school and their father had many jobs. Everyday for as long as they could remember…

middle arrow and knock it for my walk out. My path is a narrow strip of mowed grass between a dense wooded area and a corn field. After blowing my nose and clearing my throat as much as I possibly could, hopefully so I do not need to do any of those things on stand, I started on my way. It was a short walk probably half a mile or less, but it always seemed to take forever on the way out there. Once I started my walk; my whole body seemed to go into survival mode. All of my senses became more…

War? In the late 1700s this lovely land of ours that we now call Point Pleasant, West Virginia was still being explored. This area was luxurious hunting ground for the many Native American tribes that resided in the area. Point Pleasant was a wonderful place for recourses that the Shawnees needed, such as the river. the river in its self provided food, water, and transportation. The native Americans loved this land. When the white man started to invade and take over there land. the Shawnee…

the Frontier: The American Revolution in Shawnee Country. The Shawnee Indians has resisted the Americans and fought for their own revolutionary war for two decades before and after the American Revolutionary War. They had been “fighting for their freedom long before Lexington and, as for many Indian peoples, the Revolution renewed and intensified familiar pressures on their lands and culture” (Nichols, 118). The Shawnee leader Cornstalk united the other Maquachake leders to sent message to…

Ohio Humanities Chautauqua 2016: The Natural World PROGRAM SCHOLARS Dr. John C. “Chuck” Chalberg is a professional historian having taught college-level American history for many years, and has developed a number of living-history presentations including President Theodore Roosevelt and baseball legend Branch Rickey. When he is not writing for such publications as “Touchstone,” “The Weekly Standard,” “Chronicles,” “Gilbert!,” and “The New Oxford Review,” Chalberg performs at other summer…

Steadily Fading Most people think that being in college and living far from their family is a relief. Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans” tells how a young lady’s college experience was different. It wasn’t a relief from home. The “hickory leaf still summer green” blown off the tree symbolizes the young lady because she left her comfort place when she left for college in the North. She blew away from her family, as the leaf blew away from the tree. Smoldering inside, wishing she could answer her…

I have wanted to be a priest since the first time I read the bible. I spend most of my time praying, fasting, and reading the bible. However, I am a black man that lives in the South and sadly I have been in slavery my whole life. My mother has always wanted what was best for me. She even tried to hide me at birth but it did not work. My dad was not around during my life and that makes me think that he ended up how I will. I would like to be free but I know that my owner would find me and kill…

depends on how well it can be navigated. Many haunted mazes claim that no one has made it through to the other side. It's meant to scare guests. Haunted Theme Park This type of haunted attraction is usually an amusement park with rides and buildings that are converted to scary attractions in the fall. There are roller coasters and other rides that are changed to spooky or scary rides with the addition of signs and themed characters. Buildings and live shows will have a Halloween or haunted…

During the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln had wanted to stop General Robert E. Lee, so by sending General George McClellan to stop him, but had instead given both forces to be seen at a cornstalk field in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Although the movement/footsteps of each force weren’t able to be seen, because of the stalks surrounding all of them, that did not stop them from firing at each other. As the battle was going on, the forces had begun to move towards the bridge beside…