At first, while Bell talks and talks, Henderson stays quiet, rolling a pen between his fingers.
The streets of Bethlehem were eerily empty, as most residents obeyed an Israeli curfew, announced over the loudspeaker of an armored car rolling through the quiet streets.
"I've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines," Joel sings on "No Man's Land," the lead track on what remains his final pop-music studio album, "River of Dreams," from 1993.
This is the last frontier, the place where the suburban sprawl of Los Angeles meets a peaceful patch of live oaks, rolling hills and quiet back roads along the Santa Clara River, one of a tiny handful of wild waterways left in Southern California.
Three false starts, one embarrassing misunderstanding involving suspected breaking and entering, and I was ready to give up, until rolling down a quiet side street, we came across a handsome young man stood outside a gate.
It wasn't until convoys of drilling trucks for a hydro-fracking operation began rolling down her quiet country road that she learned the cause of her ailments: a neighbor had leased his land for hydro-fracking several years earlier, and there were ten wells located within a half-mile of her home.
Being quiet and rolling our eyes isn't enough: unless they're clearly shown otherwise, people like this will carry on kidding themselves that the rest of us all reckon they are, like, total legends.
"This area is great for cycling as you've got peaceful rolling countryside with very quiet roads and plenty of pitstops in nice pubs and pretty villages," he says.
And everyone who lives in this southern Morris County township treasures the sheer beauty of the place -- rolling hills, open meadows, quiet country roads and hundreds of acres of woods with fox, deer, coyotes and the occasional bear.
Before the results began rolling in, the room fell quiet as guests bowed their heads and began to pray.
