Talk:Hemingford, Nebraska

Stephen King
I've deleted a section asserting that Hemingford is the "Hemingford Home" of Stephen King's works. A perusal of King persuades me that his H.H. is located in central Nebraska rather than in the Panhandle.
 * In the story "Children of the Corn", Grand Island is described as the next town down the road from Gatlin, which is near H.H. According to Google Maps, G.I. is 300 miles, and 5 hr 23 min from Hemingford. Moreover, the route from Hemingford to Grand Island passes directly through Alliance, which is a major city (by Panhandle standards), and would be the logical nearest-major-town to a village near Hemingford.
 * In the novel The Stand, H.H. is in Polk County. Osceola, the county seat of Polk County, is 327 miles from Hemingford; but only 50 miles from Grand Island.

Given this, I don't think we can safely conclude that King had Hemingford-in-the-Panhandle in mind when he invented Hemingford Home. Without a valid source, we should not include the claim in the article.

--Ammodramus (talk) 03:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Someone's put it back, but I'd concur with the aboe. Hemingford Home is in the middle of corn-growing country. I passed within a few miles of Hemingford earlier this year and the land around to my untutored British mind more like grassland. Mr Larrington (talk) 14:48, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

There's another short story, collected in NIGHT SHIFT that either takes place in Hemingford Home or has a character from there. I can't recall and don't have a copy on hand. Also, this section makes it seem like HH is only the setting of the Children of the Corn movies, not the short story as well (also collected in NIGHT SHIFT. Just some thoughts for the sake of completion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CDFC:A8E0:CCDD:DD75:954B:6C26 (talk) 19:18, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

The Stand
When Mother Abigail and party depart from Hemingford Home in The Stand, they do so on Route 30, which passes just to the north of Polk County, but is nowhere near Hemingford. So it's clear that Hemingford is not Hemingford Home. King may or may not have borrowed the name from the town. The statement that he did so in the absence of a source is speculation. Intelligent Mr Toad 2 (talk) 06:00, 19 August 2015 (UTC)


 * See previous discussion on this page re. descriptions of Hemingford Home that don't match the actual Hemingford. However, the USA Weekend source cited in the article expressly states that King borrowed the name from the real city. Ammodramus (talk) 12:12, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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