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Tresbien · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436

Re: prison city

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:55 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:11 am

dev · Veteran Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 75

Well there are only a few Bangors in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor

I'm going to guess that we are either looking at Bangor ME (I'm just partial to that because I'm from Maine.) Or Bangor NY because it is very close to Canada and it seems like our PM is based out of there.

EDIT: Also another possibility:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bangor

City of Bangor was a ship that sailed around the great lakes.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:53 pm

FractalP · Decorated Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 258

Hey all, new to this one. Just had an idea about Bangor. I'm a pretty big Stephen King fan, and I remember that a few of his books (Insomnia comes to mind) are set in the town of Derry, which is apparently his idea of Bangor. In fact, most of his fictional towns are based in Maine. Could Stephen King be Bangor's book-keeper?

**Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:30 am

Tresbien · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436

Welcome FractalP and nice work on that connection. I think it's safe to say that King's work is a significant influence on the writer, but the hints never advanced us in the other story. Here's the wiki page on Derry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_(Stephen_King)
ETA: Don't know why these pages didn't link properly, but you need to copy all of that to get to the right page. The reference to his short story "The Bird and The Album" caught my attention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia_(novel)

**Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:22 pm

dms · Boot Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 30

Nothing new happening here? It's been a while since I checked in...

**Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:17 pm

BadSmeagol · Boot Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 55 Location: NY

I've been keeping an eye on this one too. It just kinda died out.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:02 am

Pavoreax · Boot Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Las Vegas

I'm not sure if it's totally dead or what. There were a couple of months of inactivity, then the message about Bangor and the Book-keeper about a month ago. It almost feels like we've missed something, but I've been over everything again and again to no avail. I guess we wait. But I don't think it's totally dead yet.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:48 pm

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Tresbien · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436

My first thought about Bangor was that it meant Maine. Book-keeper could refer to an accountant or a library or a person who has a particular book. I did think the leathery page likely was a book cover. While doing some searching I found that there's also a Bangor in PA: http://www.bangorlibrary.org/ as well as the one in ME: http://www.bpl.lib.me.us/ That was interesting to me because the page thebruce found was from some place south of Boston. Yet, it's not enough to propel us forward as far as I can tell.

*waving hello to dms*

**Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:05 pm

Pavoreax · Boot Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Las Vegas

Yeah, I was exploring other Bangors for a while too. Most interestingly, I found a John Galt who wrote some newspaper articles in Bangor, PA. I think he's just some guy with an unfortunate name, though.

I began to think recently that this all may have had something to do with the movie, "Echelon Conspiracy" that came out recently, and was universally panned. I hope that's not connected. The movie has zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes right now.

From a synopsis of that movie, though, I don't see how they can be connected.

I sent a message to Songwraith a week or two ago, basically asking if we needed to keep looking or keep waiting at this point. I never heard back. I'll post here if I do, of course.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:18 pm

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Pavoreax · Boot Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Las Vegas

A message from Songwraith!

**Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:04 am

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Tresbien · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436

Nice work Pavoreax. Since it's your find do you want to contact the store and see if songwraith left any sort of message or package? It could well be a drop.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:08 pm