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The Washington Post
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RoadTrip
On the Trail of the Underground Railroad in Maryland
WHERE: Montgomery County.
Wander along the 1.25mile Blue Mash Nature
Trail, where runaway
slaves reportedly took
shelter on their way north.
The nearby community of
Mount Zion was founded
by former slaves in 1862.
WHY: An 1820s slave cabin, freedom seekers’ footprints and a dose of
Quaker goodness.
HOW FAR: About 25 miles from start to finish.
ong before bustling interstates and Beltway jam-ups, Montgomery County’s roads led to freedom.
In the 1800s, the rural county was a thriving hub of the Underground Railroad, the network of abolitionists who helped tens
of thousands of slaves flee bondage. Much of the activity in Maryland
originated in Sandy Spring, a town settled by Quakers in the 1720s.
Today, you can arrive in Sandy Spring the same way many slaves did —
on a bid for freedom through the thickets and streams of the nearby
woods, now part of the Underground Railroad Experience Trail. The
trail, which opened in 2003, stretches a little less than two miles. Along
the way, visitors will encounter nine points of interest, including the natural spring that inspired the town’s name. Though an active village,
Sandy Spring appears frozen in time, with well-kept homes dating from
the 18th century and its spiritual core, the Friends Meeting House, still
intact.
In these parts, slaves on the run followed the only main artery between
Georgetown and Frederick, along what is now Route 355. The road travels through Rockville, where “railroad conductor” Josiah Henson —
whose autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” — toiled for 30 years as a slave on Isaac Riley’s farm. You can
stand on the spot of Adam Robb’s Tavern, where Henson worked as a boy.
Oral tradition holds that many places in Rockville, such as a basement
crawl space in Christ Episcopal Church, may have harbored fugitive
slaves. With few written records, much knowledge of the Underground
Railroad comes from local lore — a testament to its success, says Anthony Cohen. He is the founder of the Olney-based Menare Foundation, a
nonprofit group dedicated to preserving Underground Railroad sites. In
June near Germantown, Cohen will open the Historic Button Farm Living History Center, a restored 1850s-era plantation where visitors will be
able to try their hand at life as a slave.
Stepping into a slave’s shoes also may put 21st-century frustrations
into perspective. Cohen remembers meeting a woman who dreaded congestion on Rockville Pike until she learned that slaves traveled the same
road to escape captivity. “It lessens the pain to know that this was a route
to freedom,” he says. “It’s a source of inspiration.”
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roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation (be sure to
check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail roadtrip@
washpost.com.
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MediaMix
TITLE
BASIC STORY
Life Class
By Pat Barker
Doubleday
$23.95
A love triangle of young artists unfolds as each
attempts to make sense of his or her occupation
and its purpose while confronting
the global and personal
horrors of World War I.
The Reserve
By Russell Banks
Harper
$24.95
Just a Little Lovin’
Shelby Lynne
Lost Highway
$13.98
Moment
of Forever
Willie Nelson
Lost Highway
$13.98
GAME
DVD
DVD
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GAME
A Quick Take on New Releases
The Invasion
Rated PG-13
Warner Bros.
$28.98
The King of Kong:
A Fistful of Quarters
Rated PG-13
New Line
$27.98
The best-selling author (“Rule
of the Bone”) crafts a strange
tale of romance and intrigue
set in the parlors and patios
of a swank 1930s summer
retreat for the uber-wealthy.
“So you see how things are, Paul. Everybody
doing important war work, except me. I alone
preserve an iron frivolity.”
— Part of a letter from Elinor in London
to Paul, who’s on the front
“It wasn’t a matter of liking or disliking
Vanessa Von Heidenstamm. You were
magnetically attracted to her or you were
repelled, and in his case it was both.”
— The protagonist gives in
to his baser instincts
»
Shelby in Los Angeles does “Dusty
in Memphis,” offering live-in-the-studio covers
of tunes made famous by Dusty Springfield
— at the suggestion of Barry
Manilow!
The world’s coolest biodiesel
advocate teams up with
co-producer and megastar
Kenny Chesney for a vibrant
set of 10 (mostly) wellchosen covers and three
top-shelf Nelson originals.
In the latest remake of “Invasion
of the Body Snatchers,” a psychiatrist (Nicole
Kidman) and a doctor (Daniel Craig) try not to fall
prey to an alien virus taking over the planet.
This hilarious documentary follows out-of-work
science teacher Steve Wiebe as he attempts to
best the all-time high Donkey Kong score of
arcade legend and hot-sauce impresario
Billy Mitchell, far right.
Burnout Paradise
PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360
Rated Everyone 10+
Electronic Arts
$59.99
In Paradise City,
players start with a
learner’s permit from
the DMV and earn
upgrades by
succeeding in racing and
stunt-based events.
Nitrobike
Wii
Rated Everyone 10+
Ubisoft
$49.99
It’s basically a threedimensional update on the 1980s
2-D motorcycle race game Excitebike, but better
because there are lots of things to crash through.
WHAT YOU WON’T
WHAT YOU’LL LOVE
SAMPLE GRAB
“Whatever you might need
to reconsider what I’m givin’, say
the word / Hurt me one more night /
Just pretend you love me”
— “Pretend,” the album’s
sole new Lynne composition
The Booker Prize winner possesses
a rare gift for capturing unspoken moments and imbuing them with life in
wonderful sentences swollen with
meaning.
»
Banks’s prose reads like a love letter
to the Adirondacks, full of bygone-era
seaplane flights, crystalline waters and sunny,
spruce-framed skies. You can practically feel
the pine needles crunching
underfoot.
Lynne’s sultry reading of the
title track — a song about
a morning romp — is more
than twice as long as
Springfield’s version. Your
partner won’t complain, but
what about your boss?
»
“You don’t think I’m funny anymore /
I used to fake a heart attack / And fall
down on the floor / But even I don’t think that’s
funny anymore”
— The 74-year-old Nelson confronts
mortality with grace on “You Don’t Think
I’m Funny Anymore”
“Civilization crumbles
whenever we need it
most. In the right situation,
we are all capable of the
most terrible crimes.”
— A Russian ambassador
to Carol (Kidman)
»
The disc’s warm, rich production shows that the
Nelson-Chesney chemistry is palpable. If you
still need convincing, check out their duet on the
substance-abuse ode “Worry B Gone.”
The pod-people
premise is still
creepy, especially when they
projectile-vomit the
virus all over their
victims.
New cars appear on the streets as you progress
through the game, and you’ll have to track them
down and take them out to get a seat
behind their steering wheels.
Paradise’s open-world format
makes steering your car just a
hairbreadth away from danger and
plowing into crowded intersections
a seamless affair, whether you’re
driving online or off.
»
The intuitive motion-sensitive controls (tilt left
and right to turn, tilt back to wheelie) allow for
precise maneuvering.
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BILLY MITCHELL © 2007 PICTUREHOUSE
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— Reviewed by Alexis Burling
Banks clearly has more love for
the landscape than he does for
his characters, who range from hypocritical,
arrogant artists to leggy women whose only
interesting attributes are the men they choose
to bed.
C-
— Sara Cardace
The “why” factor of single-artist tribute albums
is always high. Lynne’s takes on these classics
sound great but aren’t quite revelatory enough
to clear that bar.
B
— Chris Klimek
Does Willie really need to cover Dave Matthews?
Does anyone?
— C.K.
AC-
— Greg Zinman
The extras fill
you in on how a
man can watch 66
hours of people playing
Missile Command.
In a fantastically fun
bonus game, go
bowling by sliding
your bike into a set
of ginormous pins.
The novel is filled with tales of relentless hardships, bittersweet love affairs that can’t possibly survive and
“life lessons” that will cut readers’
hearts to the quick.
It looks as if we’ll never see the original
cut made by director Oliver
Hirschbiegel (“Downfall”) before
he was replaced by James McTeigue
(“V for Vendetta”) and the
Wachowski brothers.
“I wanted the glory. I wanted
the fame. I wanted the pretty
girls to come up and say,
‘Hi, I see that you’re good at
Centipede.’ ”
— Walter Day, chronicler of world-record video
game scores, lays out the ultimate arcade fantasy
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GRADE
There is a danger that
after the film, viewers
will be inspired to regale
one another with
stories of their own
video game conquests.
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— G.Z.
With the preponderance
of shortcuts and the ability
to blaze your own trail
during a race, it’s easy to
get lost.
A-
— Evan Narcisse
The boundaries of the courses are not always
clear: You can literally lose track of the track.
— Christopher Healy
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