![]() A bookmobile showed up each month, depending on the weather, but it’s nearly impossible to learn the art of browsing stacks when others are waiting for their turns, when there’s no lingering allowed. Elementary schools shared a traveling librarian who’d cart books in her car. Like many young kids in urban settings, those from my rural western Pennsylvania community had limited library exposure some of us never stepped foot in a real library until junior high. The effect of listening to music is particularly powerful: we are laying down the tracks along which we’ll respond to music for decades to come. Librarians are doing their best to clarify the specific needs of those in rural America and then developing ways to meet them despite lack of funding and support, but there is still much to improve. Recent studies of rural communities and education have also shown that rural America, like urban America, is diverse in economics, race, and lifestyle, recognizing there are categories of rural-“fringe,” “distant,” and “remote”-with unique needs. So, bookstore owners, music store owners like Gene, and librarians hold the keys to powerful experiences for Americans who are cut off by geography. Neuroscientists and researchers, studying neural pathways with the help of music and MRIs, have proven that in adolescence, the effect of listening to music is particularly powerful: we are laying down the tracks along which we’ll respond to music for decades to come. I knew it then, and in countless ways I’m sure of it now. I spent hours memorizing lyrics of my dad’s favorites, “Boy Named Sue” from Johnny Cash’s At San Quentin album, all of Hank William’s hits, Patsy Cline’s.Īfter I learned to read, I pored over liner notes, transcribing lyrics, gingerly lifting the needle to replay and replay until I got the words just right as this was important work, learning this kind of storytelling. We might not have been a reading family with shelves of books, but we had a modest yet amazing collection of records. Though my blue-collar family struggled between layoffs, we owned a stereo console cabinet with good solid speakers. He’d play a tune if you asked for a sample, handling the vinyl like blown glass. Gene was a near-twin to Wolfman Jack, the well-known thick-haired, bearded disc jockey of the 70s, but Gene was quieter, more contemplative. Behind the counter 45s hung on a massive peg board and hundreds more LPs seemed to be waiting on the shelves, readying to be flipped through. Inside is a locked chest with the blueprint for “Helluva Homerun.At Gene’s Music City, albums covered in sagging plastic wrap lined three walls. Once you flip it, grapple across the gap to the other open doorway. Enter the open doorway and flip the final switch at the end of the room. Climb or grapple your way to the railing up above. Drop down inside to avoid the Demolisher and to make your way to a second switch Ali needs you to flip.ĭown below is the sewers. You don’t have to fight the Demolisher to complete the mission.įrom the corner Crane dives to to dodge, run to the left wall to find the main switch. The parts will work, all you need to do is flip the switch inside the dam to turn the electricity back on. With the zombies gone, talk to Ali behind the protection of the Faceless. You will need the two perks for this to work, but it’s a great way to gain power experience and safely clear the area. A great strategy for wiping out all of the zombies is to kill one and use their corpse as camouflage, then sneak behind each one and snap their necks. You can vault over the biters and join them in their small circle of protection. In the middle is Ali with one of the Faceless, whom is providing protection through chants. There is a large number of zombies at the damn. ![]() ![]() When you arrive, park outside a hop over the fence and get read for a hoard. Either head straight there or secure a few safe zones along the way. This is a good quest to fill out portions of your map early on. Now you have to drive to the southwest corner of the Countryside to meet Ali at the power station. ![]() Jump onto the white truck and pick up the insulator. ![]() At the end will be an insulator you can kick off. There you can find a red antenna tower.Ĭlimb the tower and walk out along the horizontal part of the tower. Drive off to the section of the highway with the auto shop out of the back of a trailer truck. The first task is to find an insulator for the new fuse that Bilal gave you. Talk to Bilal at the gas station to trigger this quest to return power. The people living at the farm and the gas station may have water, but they’ll need electricity too. ![]()
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