Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Strangers at the Feast

(2010)

Jennifer Vanderbes

(1974 – )

Notes

9  Thanksgiving: celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States to mark the 1621 autumn harvest feast of the Plymouth pilgrims with the Wampanoag Indians which is considered to be the first Thanksgiving

• Thanksgiving

70  Ginger Rogers: American actress most known for her film roles opposite Fred Astaire such as Swing Time (1936)

• Ginger Rogers Official Site

ginger (Merriam-Webster)

3: a light reddish or reddish-brown color <ginger hair>

75  Lev Kuleshov:

• Lev Kuleshov

75  Kuleshov Effect: 

• The original Kuleshov Experiment (video clip, 0:17 min.)

• Dean Mobbs, et al., "The Kuleshov Effect: The Influence of Contextual Framing on Emotional Attributions" (2006)

183  Since the unions had never let in blacks:

• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: A Century of Segregation

• A Century of Racial Segregation 1849–1950

• Segregation

• What Was Jim Crow?

• Examples of Jim Crow Laws

• Black Life in the Era of Segregation: Accommodation and Resistance

183  Yale & Towne: lock manufacturing company

• History

• Yale History: 1844

189  Lavinia Fontana: sixteenth-century Italian painter

• Lavinia Fontana

• Lavinia Fontana: Biography

189  Marietta Tintoretto: sixteenth-century Italian painter

• Marietta Tintoretto

• The "Lost" Paintings of Marietta Robusti

224  eminent domain: the right of the state to take private property for public use (WordNet Search 3.0)

• Eminent Domain History

224  F. D. Rich: Frank D. Rich, Sr. is an immigrant from Italy who settled in Stamford, Connecticut as a stonemason "building fireplaces and stone walls"

• F. D. Rich Company History

228  blight: in construction or urban development, deteriorating or deteriorated area

• Blight and Eminent Domain

286  blight:

blight (Merriam-Webster)

1a: a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (as leaves and tubers) b: an organism (as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight
2: something that frustrates plans or hopes
3: something that impairs or destroys
4: a deteriorated condition <urban blight>

Review Sheet

Characters

Eleanor Olson –  

Denise Olson –  

Douglas Olson –  

Gavin Olson –  

Ginger Olson, Ginny –  

Alrek Olson – 

Priya – 

Kijo Jackson – 

Grandma Rose –

Detective Bill O'Shea – 

Dr. Blaise Langley – (13)

Places 

Connecticut –  

Bridgeport – 

Stamford – 

Southfield Village – 

Vidal Court – 

Westport – (4)

Time 

November 

Thanksgiving Day – 

Reference

Reference

Vanderbes, Jennifer. Strangers at the Feast. New York: Scribner, 2010.

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