Trollope and Stowe had witnessed firsthand the escape of desperate fugitive blacks across the Ohio river into the city, and Toni Morrison's magisterial Beloved (1987) also hinges on the city's status as Underground Railroad destination.
Several times I had to get off the train and walk miles of blocks to my destination; underground I felt overwhelmed by crowds, claustrophobic.
Two installations on the Expo grounds take visitors underground to mystery destinations.
Thirty years ago, Rainbow Guy (aka Guy Feldmann) was divinely inspired to change his gypsy ways, settle down, and complete two very important missions: build the Temple, a nondenominational gathering place devoted to the pursuit of truth, and burrow an underground tunnel without a destination.
Roger Cohen (NYT) GERMANY: NUCLEAR SHIPMENT -- After three days of protests and 700 arrests, a shipment of German nuclear waste from a reprocessing plant in France reached its destination at an underground storage bunker in Gorleben in northern Germany.
Nottage's creation, Mlima, has the enormous tusks of the real-life Satao, but, rather than focus just on Mlima's murder, Nottage made the ambitious decision to trace the stolen tusks, each step of the way along the chain of illegal underground transactions, to their ultimate destination in Beijing.
In this case, it was able to figure out on its own the quickest route between stops on the London Underground and reassess if the destination was overshot.
2. To reclaim Santa Monica's roots and reputation as being a luxury destination and having an underground street cultural edge, Santa Monica being one of the origins of surf and skate culture.
NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A13 THIS WEEEKEND T: Travel From a family vacation in Mexico to underground Berlin, The New York Times Style Magazine looks at destinations both near and far.
The Lake District National Park Authority has warned the government an underground facility would damage the popular tourist destination's brand.
