Hanover
Names: HanoverDartmouth CollegeDartmouthDartmouth Medical SchoolHanover, New Hampshire45 College Street
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 2Hanover, New Hampshire, is a college town with area heaters, gravo-magnetic ground-cars and flying eggs; Paul 'sold' it as the human capital of the Milieu.
- Ch 26Dartmouth, in Hanover, New Hampshire, was chosen as a quixotic, individualistic school with a medical school sympathetic to metapsychic research and unlikely to be infiltrated by government agents.
- Ch 26Dartmouth administrators realized the unique talent the college harbored and sidetracked subtle probing into Denis's work.
- Ch 43Denis's lab at 45 College Street, Hanover, New Hampshire, had always been closed to journalists before the 60 Minutes visit.
- Ch 50Dartmouth is establishing a Department of Metapsychology funded by large grants.
- Ch 63By 2007 Hanover is full of operant children who treat Halloween as the one day they can use powers mischievously.
Connections
- containsGates House
- inConnecticut RiverHanover lies on the river
- has memberDenis
- containsThe Eloquent Page
- containsRogi Remillard
- includesCerebroenergetic Research Laboratory
- has memberMarc
- related toRemillard Foundationgave an endowment in Denis's name
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Ghost confronts Rogi at the Winter Carnival
The Ghost follows Rogi through the Dartmouth Winter Carnival fireworks, and Rogi angrily rails at it for using him and for the deaths of his family.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Founding of the Dartmouth Coterie
Using seekersense from 1979, Denis locates Glenn Dalembert, Sally Doyle and others, then more operants at Dartmouth, forming the Coterie.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Denis becomes Dartmouth faculty
After years of cautious research with his Coterie, Denis was admitted in 1989 to the Dartmouth Medical School faculty as Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Parapsychology).
- Book 1 · Ch 33Kieran briefs Finster on Remillard
After hearing Finster has secured Senator Scrope, Kieran sends him to Dartmouth to investigate Denis Remillard's ESP research and associates, warning of danger.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Rogi is steered to the Gates House shop
Rogi detects the Ghost's aura in a vacant shop shown by Mrs. Mallory; the Ghost admits arranging that he take it because of its proximity to the future Remillard home.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rogatien opens his bookshop
In 1991 Rogatien stocks and opens the Eloquent Page in Hanover, serving Denis's Coterie and mail-order customers.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rift over the Edinburgh demonstration
Rogatien learns telepathically that Denis has yielded to MacGregor's plan for a public demonstration; they quarrel and become estranged.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Rogatien farspeaks Denis
Rogatien uses the out-spiral chakra meditation to hail Denis mentally; Denis, boarding a helicopter to Washington, explains the President's summons, MacGregor's reasons, and urges him to join the group.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Discovery of the mind-zap hole
Rogatien finds a neat hole in his window at his exact height, concludes the farspoken hail produced a new 'mind-zap' power, and keeps it quiet.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Denis advises Washington
Denis briefed the President and testified to Congress and the Cabinet, then returned to Dartmouth to find his lab swamped by media attention and endowments.
- Book 1 · Ch 4360 Minutes interview arranged
Tremblay arranged a November 1991 CBS 60 Minutes hour with Denis and a tour of the lab, a program that Rogatien says became nearly as memorable as MacGregor's Edinburgh demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Wedding of Denis and Lucille
On 22 July 1995, Denis Remillard and Lucille Cartier wed in Hanover's Catholic church, attended by Glenn Dalembert and Ume Kimura, then left for a symposium in Brussels.
- Book 1 · Ch 63Halloween prank at the bookshop
Denis's three sons, dressed as imps, flood Rogi's shop with spaghetti 'worms' and scatter his cash. Rogi freezes them with coercion, takes their picture, and makes them clean up.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis asks Rogi to join a metaconcert
Denis visits Rogi late at night after the President's call about a Chinese anomaly and asks for his help in a joint farsight excursion.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis leaves shaken
Denis, drained, says the screen can be stopped only by destroying the generator and leaves, while Rogi fears the geopolitical consequences.
- Book 1 · Ch 72Rogatien receives Ume's farewell videogram
At the Hanover post office on 24 September 2012, Rogatien finds a videogram from Ume Kimura and realises she means to die; he runs to his shop to watch it.
- Book 1 · Ch 79Rogi recognizes the Ghost as Marc
After finishing his section of the narrative, Rogi questions the Ghost about Victor's fate and its human guises, then confirms he knows the Ghost is Marc, and they exchange goodnights.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc rushes home
Compelled by a premonition, Marc takes the CSS Funakoshi Maru to Earth, then speeds by turbocycle from Anticosti to Hanover, concealing his arrival from his father.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc spies on Lucille and Teresa
Marc secretly scans his mother and grandmother, learning Teresa is five months pregnant illegally and that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion the next morning.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc offers to save the child
After Lucille leaves, Marc contacts Teresa, shows her a plan, and touches her belly to sense the unborn child, who seems to have expected him.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc reveals the pregnancy
On the drive, Marc explains that Teresa is five months pregnant, that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion, and that he finds the fetus extraordinary and opposes aborting it; Rogi is unconvinced.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc enlists Rogi to hide Teresa
Outside Marc's home, Marc tells Rogi he plans to hide his illegally pregnant mother until the baby is born, and asks for Rogi's help.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Lylmik compels Rogi
After Rogi considers refusing, a Lylmik speaks mentally to him, insisting he help. The door nudges him inside and he goes upstairs.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Marc enlists Rogi to stay with Teresa
Teresa's packing proves hopelessly unsuitable; Marc decides Rogi must stay with her in the Reserve cabin and Rogi reluctantly agrees.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Coercing the Hertz agent
Marc paralyzes Siri Olafsdottir, wipes her memory, falsifies Hertz computer records and sends her away so the red rental egg can be used.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc meets baby Jack
Marc sees Jack's healthy body, bonds mentally with him, and clashes when Jack coerces him. Marc agrees to mentor Jack and promises to explain lethal genes.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc and Rogi argue about Paul
Marc resents Paul's coolness toward Teresa, but Rogi persuades him to accept it; Rogi shares news of Jack's pending genetic assay.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Family reacts at Teresa's house
Rogi, Marc and the children gather with Teresa. She explains the pardon options; Marc angrily criticizes Paul, and Rogi sends him away.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc threatens to erase Rogi's alcoholism
Marc coerces Rogi and prepares to redact his drinking, but desists after Rogi's plea. They agree to do nothing for now, and Rogi offers to share his ghost story.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Teresa's Turandot triumph
Teresa's opening night as Turandot in New York is a triumph; Paul reconciles with her backstage and moves back home to Hanover the next day.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Remillard Christmas caroling
Rogi led thirty-four cousins in carols under Teresa's window, then took hay wagons to the hospital to carol for Jack, who gave each child a miniature white rose.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Teresa found dead
After midnight mass, Rogi visited Teresa's room, glimpsed a phantom man kissing her, then found her hand cold and an empty pill bottle.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc visits Jack
Marc overcomes his fear and visits Jack, who warns that Hydra has resumed killing and has matured, and asks Marc to warn Rogi and boost security.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc returns toward Hanover
Marc retrieves the helmet, vows not to use it again, and rides back to the frat house, planning to race in manual mode.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Hydra plots to kill Marc
The five heads of Hydra argue and agree on Gordo's plan to T-bone Marc during the ice-cycle race, burn his fuel and drown him, against Fury's wishes.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Hydra children's ambush of Rogi
Madeleine and others lure Rogi to Paul's house with a false emergency and try to coerce him. He recognizes them, shields his mind and uses the Great Carbuncle; a flash of light returns him to his garage.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Rogi's mind is reamed for the exorcism
Jack and Dorothée secretly visit Hanover and redact Rogi's memories for data on Fury, then explain the plan to heal Denis on Christmas at Marie's farm.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Lucille persuades Denis
Before midnight mass, Lucille urges Denis to become a Concilium Magnate to champion Unity against the Rebels; he agrees if the Lylmik ask again.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Philip and Maurice prepare the operation
At midnight mass, Philip and Maurice privately discuss their plan to use CE metaconcert on their unsuspecting father, anguished over risks and addiction.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Cyndia confides in Rogi, and Rogi confronts Marc
Cyndia tells Rogi she is pregnant and that Marc has withdrawn, fixated on Mental Man. Rogi explains the project, then tells Marc to attend to his wife and eventually tell her.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Departure for Okanagon
Jack and Dorothea return the Carbuncle to Rogi, collect Paul after verifying his neural recovery, and set out to confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Rogi finishes the manuscript and bids the Ghost farewell
Rogi completes the account for the Family Ghost, is told to give it to Marie for publication, learns of the Lylmik helpers, and shares a farewell handshake with the departing Ghost.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Elaine Donovan's New Year's reunion
Elaine appears at Rogi's door with champagne, kisses him and says they have years to catch up on; the two begin a romantic reunion.