There would be an older proprietor of a neighborhood variety store, the type that had a soda fountain with pedestal stools. In Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Michael Davis notes that the store was one of the early core concepts that producer Jon Stone brought to the show: Along with traditional American diner-type food, the store sold a wide range of goods from dry goods to soap dishes and stranger goods such as empty cigar boxes (in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street) and birdseed milkshakes for Big Bird. In canon, the food menu was extensive and suited to the different characters that lived on Sesame Street, a fictional Manhattan street. Harold Hooper in 1951 as a general store. The fictional store was said to be founded by Mr. Hooper ( Will Lee) and his store in its earlier days as a candy shop/soda fountain/general store It also made me better understand a terrible event in my state’s history, and the lives so deeply impacted by it.Original proprietor Mr. She draws a haunting picture of the power plant overlooking a town where disadvantage is rife, and a sense of loss pervades everyday life.Īlthough this was a difficult novel to read, I found it to be very illuminating, and it certainly gave me food for thought about how I would see someone like this arsonist. Hooper writes with compassion and clarity, and I loved the way she depicted a community, landscape and event. Hooper is even-handed in her analysis of the convicted arsonist, exploring the notion of him as a simpleton caught up in the community’s fury, or a malevolent presence bent on revenge for a life of bullying. The story then moves on to the main deemed responsible for lighting one of the day’s fires.
I had to choke back tears when I read about a husband’s loss of his wife and a father’s heartbreaking last message from his son. It is the recount of that awful day that I was most moved by – although I had heard about the fires and seen the images of bush ablaze in the news, I had no real idea of the people involved. Hooper evokes a devastating landscape of ash and tears, where a community is reeling from the loss of life resulting from the fire. It starts by taking the reader to the investigation into the cause of the fire, in its immediate aftermath. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire attracted a lot of attention when it was published, which was unsurprising, given its topic.Ĭhloe Hooper’s book looks at Victoria’s Black Saturday fires in Gippsland.
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