Alright, after a short break for Halloween and election season, we are back to This Week in Pandemonium, now for the week Nov.11-17.

November 11, 1620—The Bargain is signed, forming the basis of Pandemonium’s city government. After drafting the town’s founding document, Thomas Cramner and John Miller famously shake on it, beginning 400 years of cooperative governance.

November 12, 1918—Armistice Day: World War I ends. Pandemonium arranges a parade of its veterans. The Witches object to allowing Fieldhand veterans to march, leading to the event’s cancellation.

November 13, 1891—The first Ze’ev begin arriving at Ellis Island. Contemporary records indicate that passengers on board the same ships would often report seeing large beasts prowling the halls of the ship on a full moon. When asked by immigration officials, several Ze’ev merely smile and attribute it to “too much vodka.”

November 14, 1960—Pandemonium public schools are desegregated by court order as six-year-old Trudy Jackson becomes the first Fieldhand to attend kindergarten with whites and Thomas Cramner elementary school. School ends early that day due to several bomb threats being made on the building.

November 15, 1969—A group of Witch parents send a joint letter to the Public Broadcasting System, protesting the broadcast of Sesame Street for its portrayal of a racially diverse neighborhood existing in harmony and friendliness. PBS ignores the Witches, who then send the broadcaster a doll in the mail. The doll is burned after employees who touch the doll die in a car crash the same day.

November 16, 1939—The Hickory Tree, a confederate nostalgia movie sponsored by Grand Dame Elizabeth Davis, comes out in theaters, making it the first portrayal of Pandemonium on film. While the movie is later critiqued for its relatively benign portrayal of the antebellum south, the film provides several roles to black Americans at a time when Hollywood regularly used black face, giving many African Americans a foot in the door of the movie industry they previously didn’t have.

November 17, 1975—A charter plane carrying the Winthrop University football players crashes into the Smoky Mountains at 1 am in the morning, killing all 40 players on board. The tragic accident occurred after a thrilling win over UCLA on the West Coast, but before Winthrop’s traditional rivalry game with the Cramner Red Devil’s. Deprived of their best players, the Buccaneers lose to the Red Devils 47-0 the following week despite being heavily favored before the accident.