The previous time I heard Haints was on a Jean Ritchie record, played on the Midnight Special, 98.7 WFMT, and has aired continuously since at least 1953. The Jean Ritchie record was a collection of Appalachian folk songs, and the word, Haints, is their word for ghosts, though most of you seem to have already figured that out. My point in bringing it up was trying to nail down the “location” of the Tracy-verse: For much of its existence, it was presumed that Tracy’s unnamed city was Chicago. Some of you have posted that Sunny Dell Acres was a housing development under the Chicago Skyway Bridge – though a quick Google Earth of that area will quickly reveal that the entire area around the Skyway is industrial development – though I’m sure that wouldn’t have stopped Gould from putting Bob Oscar and family there, anyway!
The previous time I heard Haints was on a Jean Ritchie record, played on the Midnight Special, 98.7 WFMT, and has aired continuously since at least 1953. The Jean Ritchie record was a collection of Appalachian folk songs, and the word, Haints, is their word for ghosts, though most of you seem to have already figured that out. My point in bringing it up was trying to nail down the “location” of the Tracy-verse: For much of its existence, it was presumed that Tracy’s unnamed city was Chicago. Some of you have posted that Sunny Dell Acres was a housing development under the Chicago Skyway Bridge – though a quick Google Earth of that area will quickly reveal that the entire area around the Skyway is industrial development – though I’m sure that wouldn’t have stopped Gould from putting Bob Oscar and family there, anyway!