by Robin Furth
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: See MAINE, UNIVERSITY OF, listed separately
ORRINGTON: STEPHEN KING lived in this town while teaching at the UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. VI:391
SAGADAHOC COUNTY:
TOPSHAM: VI:290, VI:399
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: See MAINE, UNIVERSITY OF, listed separately
WHITE MOUNTAINS: See WHITE MOUNTAINS, listed separately
MAINE, UNIVERSITY OF
STEPHEN KING attended the University of Maine located in ORONO. Thanks to BURT HATLEN, he also taught creative writing there for a year.
VI:283, VI:391
MAJESTIC THEATER
See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN
MAMARONECK
See NEW YORK (STATE OF): WESTCHESTER
MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
MANSION, THE
See DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS, in PORTALS
MARKEY ACADEMY
See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN: MARKEY AVENUE
MARKEY AVENUE
See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN
MARINE MIDLAND BANK
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
MARSTEN HOUSE
See MAINE (STATE OF): ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS AND THE STATE OF MAINE: JERUSALEM’S LOT
MASS GENERAL
See MASSACHUSETTS (STATE OF): BOSTON, below
MASSACHUSETTS (STATE OF)
V:254, VII:479
BOSTON: II:348, V:254, V:255, VI:166, VI:200, VI:408, VII:104, VII:115, VII:134
BACK BAY: CONOR FLAHERTY, a servant of the CRIMSON KING, has a Back Bay accent. VII:108
FILENE’S: VII:612
HARVARD: See HARVARD, listed separately
HYATT HARBORSIDE: VI:408
MASS GENERAL (MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL): VI:402
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: II:348
LOWELL: V:254, V:255, V:593, VI:200
SEA BREEZE INN: During their trek from MAINE to NEW YORK CITY, Roland, OY, and IRENE TASSENBAUM stay at this roadside motel. Although we don’t know exactly where the Sea Breeze is located, we do know that it sits somewhere off Route I-95. As far as Roland can tell, there are no sea breezes at the Sea Breeze. VII:479–83
MELDER’S GERMAN RESTAURANT AND BRATHOUSE
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: ROUTE 7
MERCURY LOUNGE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
MERRITT PARKWAY
VII:297, VII:298
MEXICO
V:236, V:469. Also see TODASH: MEXICO, in PORTALS
LOS ZAPATOS: While in the TODASH state, PERE CALLAHAN attended the funeral of BEN MEARS here. V:236, V:469
MICHIGAN (STATE OF)
II:169, V:53, V:106
DETROIT: PERE CALLAHAN’s five years traveling along America’s HIGHWAYS IN HIDING finally led him to the LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER in Detroit. Callahan worked at Lighthouse from the late fall of 1982 until December of 1983. On December 19 of that year, Callahan and his two Lighthouse workmates—WARD HUCKMAN and AL McCOWAN—were tricked by RICHARD SAYRE of the SOMBRA CORPORATION into entering the company’s local headquarters on MICHIGAN AVENUE. Huckman and McCowan were rendered unconscious, but Callahan was forced to face the wrath of Sayre’s HIV-infected TYPE THREE VAMPIRES. Rather than submit to their bites, Callahan threw himself out a window. V:106, V:270, V:449, V:450–57, V:464, VI:122
GRAND RIVER MENSWEAR: In anticipation of his meeting with SOMBRA, CALLAHAN actually bought a suit here. All things considered, it turned out to be a waste of money. V:456, V:458
HOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOL: The LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER held its annual Thanksgiving Day festivities in this Catholic high school located on West Congress Street. V:450–51
JEFFERSON AVENUE: V:452
LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER: See LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER, listed separately
MICHIGAN AVENUE: V:453–57 (setting), V:466
TISHMAN BUILDING: The Tishman Building was the Detroit headquarters of the CRIMSON KING’s SOMBRA CORPORATION. When CALLAHAN was attacked here by the Red King’s TYPE THREE VAMPIRES, he jumped out the window. V:453–57
WEST FORT STREET: V:452
MID-TOWN LANES
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
MIDTOWN TUNNEL
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
MID-WORLD LANES
See entry in PORTALS
MILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: LOVELL
MILLION DOLLAR CAMPGROUND
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: LOVELL
MILLS CONSTRUCTION AND SOMBRA REAL ESTATE
See entry in CHARACTERS
MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)
Back in 1964, ODETTA HOLMES (one of SUSANNAH DEAN’s previous personalities) spent three days in an OXFORD, Mississippi, jail. She was incarcerated for her participation in the Civil Rights Movement. In Song of Susannah, we learn that Susannah was part of the voter registration campaign which took place in this state during the summer of ’64, nicknamed Freedom Summer. On June 21, 1964, three VOTER REGISTRATION BOYS—JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, and MICHAEL SCHWERNER—were attacked and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
During his travels along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, PERE CALLAHAN spent some time in Mississippi. His experiences in the state were much better than Susannah’s.
II:188, III:220, IV:67, V:305, V:403, V:445, VI:256, VI:321, VI:350, VI:351–55, VI:361, VII:62, VII:76, VII:145, VII:587, VII:716
ADAMS COUNTY:
NATCHEZ: V:304
COPIAH COUNTY: V:304
SHADY GROVE: V:305
ISSAQUENA COUNTY: V:303, V:445
ROUTE 3: V:303–5
LAFAYETTE COUNTY:
OXFORD: Oxford was made famous (or infamous) by the Bob Dylan song “Oxford Town” and by the events upon which the song was based. In 1962, there were riots on the University of Mississippi campus based on the university’s forced acceptance of its first black student, James Meredith. Meredith, whose acceptance at the university had been rescinded once it was discovered that he was dark-skinned, had fought for reacceptance for more than a year before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state could not deny him admission based on color. Meredith was escorted to campus by federal marshals but the city of Oxford erupted in violence. Before the National Guard could arrive, two students were killed.
SUSANNAH DEAN’s three-day incarceration in a Mississippi jail (which she refers to as a short season in hell) came about because of her participation in the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement. Like Meredith’s antagonists, Susannah’s captors were racists abusing their legal power. II:187–90, II:193, II:233–34, II:236–37, II:238, II:241, II:242, II:243, II:258, III:15, V:445, VI:11, VI:219–22 (jail cell), VI:223, VI:256, VI:321, VI:350, VI:351, VI:352–55, VI:356, VI:361, VII:62, VII:76, VII:145, VII:259
BLUE MOON MOTOR HOTEL: ODETTA HOLMES and her VOTER REGISTRATION friends stayed in the Blue Moon Motor Hotel during their time in Mississippi. VI:352, VI:353, VI:355, VI:357
JOHN BAMBRY’S CHURCH (FIRST AFRO-AMERICAN METHODIST CHURCH): VI:352
OLE MISS: See MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY OF, listed separately
NESHOBA COUNTY: VI:356
LONGDALE: VI:351, VI:354, VI:355
PHILADELPHIA: VI:351, VI:352, VI:355
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI (OLE MISS): See MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY OF (OLE MISS), listed separately
YAZOO COUNTY:
YAZOO CITY: V:303, V:304
MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY OF (OLE MISS)
Ole Miss was the site of the 1962 riots which Bob Dylan immortalized in his song “Oxford Town.” The riots were the result of the university’s forced acceptance of its first black student, James Meredith. We are told that DAMLI HOUSE, located in the DEVAR-TOI in END-WORLD, would look at home on the campus of Ole Miss.
VI:354, VII:230
MISSOURI (STATE OF)
In the children’s story Charlie the Choo-Choo, the talking train CHARLIE travels through the state of Missouri, tooting his horn.
III:255, III:256, V:308
MISSOURI PLAINS (THE BIG EMPTY): III:140, III:255, III:383
ST. LOUIS: III:139–45, III:255
MONTANA (STATE OF)
V:532, V:534
MONTGOMERY
See ALABAMA (STATE OF)
MONTREAL
See CANADA
MOREHOUSE
Founded in 1867, Morehouse College is a highly respected private liberal arts college for African-American men. Morehouse is located three miles from downtown Atlanta and has strong ties with Spelman College (also located in Atlanta), a prestigious private liberal arts college for African-American women.
V:76, V:85, V:375, VI:106, VI:116, VI:150, VI:221, VI:230, VI:363
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
MOROCCO
TANGIERS: VII:115
MOUNT EVEREST
VII:244
MOZAMBIQUE
V:179
MULTIPLE AMERICAS (ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS)
Although the DARK TOWER contains only one KEYSTONE EARTH, and that Keystone Earth contains only one United States, other levels of the Tower contain alternative versions of the North American superpower. These multiple Americas are subtly different from the United States that we know. In some, people drive TAKURO SPIRITS and drink NOZZ-A-LA cola. In at least one of them, more than 99 percent of the American population was wiped out by the superflu virus. As PERE CALLAHAN discovers during his five years along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, which connect these various United States, politics also vary from one version of America to another. While in one where, Jimmy Carter may have been elected president, in two other wheres (but the same when) Ronald Reagan and George Bush were elected instead of him.
Landscapes and town names also change from one Alternative America to another. In one version, FORT LEE sits across the HUDSON RIVER from NEW YORK CITY, yet in a different America, a town named LEABROOK sits in its place. In Song of Susannah, a somewhat disturbed EDDIE DEAN discovers that he is not from the Keystone World at all, but from one of these Alternative Americas. (In his version of the Big Apple, CO-OP CITY is located in BROOKLYN, not the BRONX.)
At the end of The Dark Tower, SUSANNAH DEAN decides to abandon her quest for the Tower and goes to live in one of these alternative versions of America. The reason? Even though her beloved husband, Eddie, died in the DEVAR-TOI, in this other where and when he is alive and well, though his name isn’t Eddie Dean anymore but Eddie TOREN. Unlike the former junkie Eddie Dean, Eddie Toren doesn’t have a bullying big brother named HENRY, but a wonderful kid brother named JAKE. See also MAINE (STATE OF): ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS AND THE STATE OF MAINE
V:298–310, V:423 (indirect), V:456, V:463 (prisms of America), V:543, VI:199–200 (Eddie discovers Co-Op City is in the Bronx), VI:204 (Co-Op City), VI:271 (Co-Op City), VII:807–13 (Susannah in an alternative New York), W:153 (and Dodge Dart)
N
NASSAU
See BAHAMAS
NATCHEZ
See MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)
NATHAN’S
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
NATIONAL GRAMOPHONE INSTITUTE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
NEBRASKA (STATE OF)
In Wizard and Glass we find out that ABAGAIL—the champion of the WHITE found in King’s novel The Stand—lives in an alternate version of Nebraska. (See also ROCKY MOUNTAINS)
IV:624, V:149
BUTTFUCK: Believe it or not, this place doesn’t really exist. EDDIE DEAN just pretends it does. III:331
OMAHA: A town in Nebraska served by the Union Pacific Railroad. The Union Pacific was joined with the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE in 1881, creating the second transcontinental railroad. See ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD. IV:72, VII:657
NEEDLE PARK
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: GREENWICH VILLAGE
NETWORK, THE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
NEVADA (STATE OF)
Beneath the mountains of this state there are concrete bunkers containing ICBMs.
III:287, V:305
ELKO: V:305
LAS VEGAS: EDDIE DEAN thinks that “Roland the Hypnotist” could make a fortune in Vegas plying his trade. V:59, VII:94
RAINBARREL SPRINGS: V:305
RENO: III:241
NEW DELHI
See INDIA
NEW ENGLAND
V:135, V:256, V:537, V:538, V:544, V:584, VI:207, VI:208, VI:265, VII:487
NEW GUINEA
PAPUA: VI:52
NEW HAMPSHIRE (STATE OF)
Some New Hampshire towns located just over the border from western MAINE are also prone to WALK-IN activity.
V:537, VI:181, VI:397
EAST CONWAY VILLAGE: Like many of the towns located in OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, East Conway is plagued by the sinister WALK-INS. VI:153
NORTH CONWAY: VI:397, VI:406
PORTSMOUTH: VII:435
NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)
During his travels through the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, PERE CALLAHAN spends much time flipping between two versions of New Jersey. In the KEYSTONE version of this state, he lives in FORT LEE and works at the FORT LEE HOMESTYLE DINER. In an alternative version of New Jersey, he lives in LEABROOK and works at the LEABROOK HOMESTYLE DINER. In both cases, his boss is named DICKY RUDEBACHER. PIMLI PRENTISS, the Master of the DEVAR-TOI, was originally from one of the New Jerseys. We don’t know if he hailed from the Keystone World or not.
II:115, III:55, V:264, V:292, V:296–301 (Callahan is there), VI:165, VII:212, VII:225, VII:239, VII:297, VII:324, VII:362
ATLANTIC CITY: II:131, III:316, V:181–82, V:537
ELIZABETH: When ODETTA HOLMES (later SUSANNAH DEAN) was a child, her AUNT BLUE got married in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Five-year-old Odetta went to the wedding, but on the way to the train station JACK MORT (who was hiding in an abandoned building at the time) dropped a brick on her head. Odetta went into a coma for three weeks and her second personality—that of the venomous DETTA WALKER—was born. II:234–38, II:320–24, III:266
FORT LEE: During his travels through the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, PERE CALLAHAN spends time in Fort Lee. However, sometimes he wakes up in the morning to find himself in LEABROOK instead. V:296, V:298, V:299, V:427
FORT LEE HOMESTYLE DINER: DICKY RUDEBACHER owns this diner. (He owns its LEABROOK twinner as well.) V:302
SUNRISE HOTEL: One of the ways that PERE CALLAHAN can figure out whether he has awoken in Fort Lee (in the Sunrise Hotel) or in LEABROOK (in the SUNSET MOTEL) is to examine the color of his bedspread. In Fort Lee, it’s orange. V:300
HACKENSACK: V:297
HOBOKEN: V:524, VI:141
LEABROOK: On another level of the DARK TOWER, FORT LEE is called Leabrook. V:296–301
LEABROOK HOMESTYLE DINER: An alternative version of DICKY RUDEBACHER owns this diner. (The KEYSTONE WORLD Dicky lives in Fort Lee.) V:299–301
LEABROOK TWIN CINEMA: V:301
MAIN STREET: V:299
SUNSET MOTEL: In the Sunset Motel, PERE CALLAHAN has a pink bedspread. (His alternative bed, located in FORT LEE, has an orange spread.) V:300
LEEMAN/LEIGHMAN/LEE-BLUFF/LEE PALISADES/LEGHORN VILLAGE: These are all versions of FORT LEE. V:298
MEADOWLANDS: Eddie once saw a concert here. III:55
NEWARK AIRPORT: VI:226
NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE: I:180
NUTLEY: See DRAWERS, in PORTALS
PERTH OIL AND GAS: When he was in high school, EDDIE DEAN went on a field trip to this oil refinery. The smell was so terrible that two of the visiting girls, and three of the visiting boys, puked. Evidently, the defunct factories located south of the DEVAR-TOI smell a bit like Perth Oil and Gas. VII:324–25
RAHWAY: PAUL PRENTISS (who later becomes PIMLI PRENTISS, the Devar Master) originally came from Rahway. VII:225, VII:226, VII:227, VII:229
TEANECK: In one of the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, the War of Kites takes place in Teaneck. V:297
NEW MEXICO (STATE OF)
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br /> V:305, VII:497, VII:510, VII:514, VII:517
ALBUQUERQUE: VII:287
SANTA FE: Santa Fe was one of the stops on the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD. It is also the name of a town in Roland’s world. See MEJIS, BARONY OF: SANTA FE, in MID-WORLD PLACES, and SANTA FE, in PORTALS. IV:68
TAOS: The FOUNDING FATHERS of the TET CORPORATION sometimes held executive retreats in Taos. (The company owns a ranch there.) Tet’s GOOD-MIND FOLK—a group of psychics who rival the CRIMSON KING’s BREAKERS—have their headquarters at this ranch. VII:497, VII:507, VII:509
NEW ORLEANS
See LOUISIANA (STATE OF)
NEW YORK (STATE OF)
V:68, VII:614 (upstate), VII:615 (upstate)
ATTICA STATE PRISON: II:372, VII:229
HUDSON RIVER: V:292, V:296–99, V:427, V:522
LONG ISLAND SOUND: EDDIE DEAN’s plane from the BAHAMAS flies over Long Island Sound before landing at JFK AIRPORT. II:58
NEW YORK CITY: See NEW YORK CITY, below
NIAGARA FALLS: IV:32, VII:237
NIAGARA MALL: We don’t know exactly where the Niagara Mall is located, just that it is situated in upstate New York in one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS. (In other words, you won’t find it in the KEYSTONE WORLD, where we live.) VII:614
STATEN ISLAND: IRENE TASSENBAUM was born on Staten Island. VII:430
TIOGA SPRINGS: RANDO THOUGHTFUL, the CRIMSON KING’s minister of state, was born Austin Cornwell, son of ANDREW JOHN CORNWELL. Andrew Cornwell came from Tioga Springs. VII:616
UTICA: In the children’s story Charlie the Choo-Choo, CHARLIE’s replacement, a BURLINGTON ZEPHYR, was built in Utica. III:141
VASSAR COLLEGE: See VASSAR COLLEGE, listed separately
WHITE PLAINS: When SUSANNAH DEAN abandons her quest for the DARK TOWER and departs MID-WORLD via the magical DOOR drawn for her by PATRICK DANVILLE, she enters one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS. Although her tet-mates EDDIE DEAN and JAKE CHAMBERS are both dead (one passed on in the DEVAR-TOI and the other entered the clearing on ROUTE 7 in MAINE), in her new America both are alive and well. These alternative versions of Eddie and Jake are the TOREN brothers, and they hail from White Plains. Although Susannah knows that this where is not the KEYSTONE WORLD (people drive Takuro Spirits and drink Nozz-A-La cola), nevertheless she is overjoyed to be there with her resurrected loved ones. VII:812
