that 's enough cable news ; let us float through certain half-deserted streets , past the congo church and the parsonage ( the meeting there has n't started yet , but piper has loaded up the big coffee urn , and julia is making sandwiches by the light of a hissing coleman lamp ) , past the mccain house surrounded by its sad sag of yellow police tape , down town common hill and past the town hall , where janitor al timmons and a couple of his friends are cleaning and sprucing up for the special town meeting tomorrow night , past war memorial plaza , where the statue of lucien calvert ( norrie 's greatgrandfather ; i probably do n't have to tell you that ) keeps his long watch , we 'll stop for a quick check on barbie and rusty , shall we ?