Raines Grove

Raines Grove Foulkes Village [4, 81] the Powlet Building wasteland a cemetery Ryse Place Raines Grove the Potter Monument a warehouse Fyfhyde Plaza St. Aelred's Church Basic Info: A Street is a city block containing no buildings or monuments. There are a variety of other names besides Street including Alley, Avenue, Boulevard, Drive, Grove, Lane, Row, Square, Walk, Place, etc. This is an empty block, and cannot be barricaded.

Raines Grove

Description

"...Where the pale tendrils of autumn stretch
out bony sprigs and
fiery snares uncoil to the kiss of sun
     the grove
is humming Donnie Larkum spiritual hash smoking smiling naked..."
Excerpt from "Foulkesian, Still Swearing" by J.M. Raines.

History

In 1998, the Eastern-most edge of Ryse Place (connecting with Fyfhyde Plaza) was renamed in honour of J.M. Raines, the "lost beatnik", who wrote the famous "Donnie Larkum" verse in the area now known as Raines Grove. Jennifer Marie Raines is a disputed beatnik poet, one of only a handful of women poets and non-Americans associated with the movement, who wrote under the nom de plume J.M. Raines. Her work was largely ignored at the time of her prolificacy, but since her untimely death has been rediscovered and is now thought to rank among the most important for the era. While her work bears a striking resemblance to Keroac's "beat-generation" in terms of content, mood, and form, Jennifer Raines was thought to have developed her work independently of the American movement and is currently viewed as a product of parallel development.

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