ck music. Ever since King was little he enjoyed baseball. He played little league. So what better to do than build a stadium. He forked over one point two million dollars for the stadium that measures a whopping three-hundred and thirty feet down the foul lines. The park has the attributes of a major league ballpark (Beahm 69-70). The next way to give back was by using his love for classic rock. King was driving in his car one day and he found out that the only classic rock radio station was going bankrupt. He was appalled. So he drove down to the radio station and he bought it right then and there. The station is WZON and is still on the air right this very minute. King is also in a hard rock band where he sings and plays the guitar. The band, called The Rock Bottom Remainders, puts on many concerts to benefit different charities (Beahm 72-73). Perhaps the most inspiration comes from the numerous towns that King has lived in over his lifetime. For example, the town of Orrington, Maine is the town that King and his wife lived in when they were first married. The town inspired him to write his smash novel "Pet Sematary." There was a road, called Route 15, that runs straight past Kings old house. Every day there was a different household animal lying dead on the road. King one day noticed a dead tabby cat dead next to the local Hartford Cemetary. He made the connection between the two and his spectacular imagination took over from there (Beahm 44). Then you have the birth of truly a classic novel.The next town that had influenced King was that of Lisbon Falls in Maine. King went to high school in this town. He graduated from Lisbon High. While he attended that school he knew a troubled girl by the name of Carietta White. He knew she wasnt the sharpest knife in the drawer and then his imagination kicked in and he thought of her maybe having powers normal people couldnt understand. Then the people she didnt like wo...
