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January 2024-Murder of Crows
Carnivale on the Green: A Railcar Based Traveling Carnival Railcar # 51
This month’s rail car, story and photos captures a tragic moment in time of a hot summer day in1963 just outside Fargo, North Dakota. CARNIVALE was open for business. This horrific event began with the ringing of a distant bell. The air was suddenly filled with the sounds of running and screaming kids. From that moment on the expression a 'collection of crows' sadly received a new moniker.
This is a true story. True.*
That fateful day began many years earlier with the birth of son Alfred to Emma and William Hitchcock......and a second, surprise twin brother. Unable to care for two children, the Hitchcocks put up the second twin for adoption. A young carnival couple by the name of the Bodegas, unable to have children, happily adopted the second twin. Asking the yet unnamed child's name, the Hitchcocks simply replied that “he's not Alfred”. Being just partially fluent in English, the Bodegas misunderstood that their boy’s name was Alfred. At that moment a parallel universe was born.
Not knowing of the existence of a twin brother, each boy began living their separate lives in their own parallel universe. As the years passed Alfred went on to study film making while Alfred took over his adopted parents traveling petting zoo at their passing. Alfred officially entered the entertainment business years later with his first feature motion picture and at the same time Alfred also entered the entertainment world with his now fine-tuned petting zoo exclusively featuring trained crows that could be held, petted, hand fed and would speak words and phrases (I think you know where this is going).
Alfred had an arrangement with the Carneys that operated the 'adults only' rail cars (A future article subject) where his attraction served as a handy child watching service while the parents would visit the nearby 'adults only' rail cars. With the ringing of the Bodega School bell by Alfred, the nearby parents were notified to retrieve their kids. All seemed well.
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The twins’ parallel universes collided that fateful day during Alfred's movie premiere of THE BIRDS in the Bodega School where the movie was filmed. During the showing, the now infamous scene when a massive gathering (now Murder) of crows had taken over the Bodega school grounds and the teacher rang the school bell for recess. Bad move. Bad. At that exact moment, two thousand miles away in Fargo, Alfred rang his bell. Bad move. Bad. And it is a known fact that in parallel universes when 'FOR WHOM THE BELL CROWS'....... it is not good.
Note.....Some common sayings were born that day; A bird in the hand. Eat crow. As the crow flies. Crow bait. A poke in the eye. Pecking order (ringing of the bell). Come fly with me. Who let the crows out? (not dogs)
*This is a true story. True. It’s not. This is a phrase I stole from the quirky film producers, the Coen brothers, who would put it at the beginning of each FARGO TV episode.
Hidden in the floor boards of the rail car is a nook housing a mini sound recorder. Recorded on it is a loop recording of a cawing crow.
