People of New Zebedee
Known for living by the river and talking about the World's Last Night
Hammerhandle
"Last night vandals broke into the Old Izard mausoleum in Oakridge Cemetery. The doors of the tomb were found standing ajar, with the padlock lying shattered on the pavement." (page 91)
Just barely open
"Please don't tell Tarby any more stories about ghosts and graveyards." (page 141)
Tarby's mom
Mrs. Zimmerman
Inside the parlor organ
When Lewis first sees Mrs. Zimmerman, she is doing this
"New Zebedee was different. It was full of tall, elaborately decorated old houses. Even the ordinary white-frame houses had things that made them seem different." (page 23)
Extremely detailed and carefully done
"If they ever find out that you were up there that night, you tell them that you were there by yourself." (page 143)
Tarby
Fill in the blank: "A few wisps of gray hair clung to the crevices in the smooth dome, and over the empty eyeholes a pair of rimless glasses was perched. The glasses were _______________." (page 172)
Shattered
Capharnaum County
Corrigan
"After that, he went into seclusion. Further seclusion, that is. He and she had always been hermits, but after her death he really shut himself up." (page 37)
the state of being alone or away from other people
"Stop right there, Mrs. Izard. You’re not dealing with children now." (page 152)
Mrs. Zimmerman
Hammerhandle's moving company is named this, referencing the end of the world "moving in"
Terminus Movers Inc.
Uncle Jonathan's address
The Izards' tomb is inscribed with this phrase
THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED
"There were many evenings when she and I would stand in her back yard and look up and see old Isaac’s evil face in the window of the cupola on top of the house." (page 35)
A domed roof at the top of a house
"Don't you read your Bible like a good boy?" (page 123)
Hammerhandle
According to Uncle Jonathan, the Bible says that this will happen on Judgment Day. Mrs. Izard can relate!
Graves will open and bodies will rise from the dead
While being chased by Mrs. Izard, Uncle Jonathan drives over this, which Mrs. Izard cannot.
Wilder Creek
Elihu Clabbernong is known in New Zebedee for building this
The bridge over Wilder Creek
"Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood
For the good or evil side." (page 145)
Challenging disagreement
"Curse the day she left me! Curse the day she went away!" (134)
Isaac Izard
Lewis learned about Hands of Glory from reading books by this author
John L. Stoddard
At the end of the story, Lewis has lived in New Zebedee for this amount of time
About 9 months