Danforth Keeton

Let me give you a for-instance. Do you see the fellow just going up the courthouse steps? No, not the man in the suit; that’s Dan Keeton, our Head Selectman. I mean the other one—the black guy in the work fatigues. That’s Eddie Warburton, the night-shift janitor in the Municipal Building.

Dan Keeton is the Head/First Selectman in both Castle Rock novels, a shortened form of Danforth Keeton.

The head selectman is seen climbing the courthouse steps. His wife Myrtle is worried about changes in his behavior.

I’m sure of that. I should have recognized it from the background, but I was concentrating on the details.” “No,” Thad said. “I guess it wasn’t.” “The First Selectman, Dan Keeton, would have insisted that Homeland not be identified—that would have been a brass-bound condition. He’s a very cautious type of guy.

Dan Keeton is the Head/First Selectman in both Castle Rock novels, a shortened form of Danforth Keeton.

Sheila Brigham had nothing to report from dispatch, and Norris Ridgewick was snoozing in his chair out in the bullpen area, feet cocked up on his desk. Alan should have wakened him—if Danforth Keeton, the First Selectman, came in and saw Norris cooping like that, he would have a cow—but he just didn’t have the heart to do it.

The Dark Half calls Danforth Keeton the First Selectman overseeing Pangborn and Ridgewick, matching his Castle Rock role in Needful Things.