Fic: A New Life
Title: A New Life
Author: colls
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Rufus Turner
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4,717
Warnings: n/a
State: Maryland
Author's Notes: **(below the cut are links, notes & pictures)
Summary: In 1970, Rufus Turner arrived in Baltimore to start a new life. He winds up in one of the most haunted neighborhoods of the city.
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Tug boats are one of my favorite pieces of the Baltimore Inner Harbor area. Much of the worker seaport of Baltimore has turned into loft apartments and tourist destinations, but remnants of it cling to the edges of neighborhoods like mine - Fells Point. At least until last year when the tug boats left my neighborhood *weeps* The Port of Baltimore is still one of the most active ports on the Eastern Seaboard, much of the activity happening a few miles away now.
As an centuries old seaport, you can't throw a stick without hitting a ghost stories about sailors and brothels, but what isn't eerie about the lonely note of a tug boat horn? Did you know they sound exactly like trains? There's a meta in that, I'm sure of it.
maritimeone.com (artist rendition of tug boats in Fells Point, around 1971)
Shortly before they left Fells Point.
Some random stuff about Baltimore/Fells Point/Tug boats that influenced this fic or stuff you might find interesting (or maybe not).
1) The race riots of 1968
Baltimore '68
2) Fells Point & her bars
About Fell's Point
General Fells Point Walking Tours
The Horse You Came In On
The Cat's Eye Pub
Baltimore Ghost Tours
3) Tug boats!!
tug boats leave Fells Point
Moran Tugs
Baltimore Tug wiki
more stuff about tug boats
Author: colls
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Rufus Turner
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4,717
Warnings: n/a
State: Maryland
Author's Notes: **(below the cut are links, notes & pictures)
Summary: In 1970, Rufus Turner arrived in Baltimore to start a new life. He winds up in one of the most haunted neighborhoods of the city.
**
Tug boats are one of my favorite pieces of the Baltimore Inner Harbor area. Much of the worker seaport of Baltimore has turned into loft apartments and tourist destinations, but remnants of it cling to the edges of neighborhoods like mine - Fells Point. At least until last year when the tug boats left my neighborhood *weeps* The Port of Baltimore is still one of the most active ports on the Eastern Seaboard, much of the activity happening a few miles away now.
As an centuries old seaport, you can't throw a stick without hitting a ghost stories about sailors and brothels, but what isn't eerie about the lonely note of a tug boat horn? Did you know they sound exactly like trains? There's a meta in that, I'm sure of it.
maritimeone.com (artist rendition of tug boats in Fells Point, around 1971)
Shortly before they left Fells Point.
Some random stuff about Baltimore/Fells Point/Tug boats that influenced this fic or stuff you might find interesting (or maybe not).
1) The race riots of 1968
Baltimore '68
2) Fells Point & her bars
About Fell's Point
General Fells Point Walking Tours
The Horse You Came In On
The Cat's Eye Pub
Baltimore Ghost Tours
3) Tug boats!!
tug boats leave Fells Point
Moran Tugs
Baltimore Tug wiki
more stuff about tug boats