Recently I have added 2 works to my published oeuvre: “White on Black: Thinking about Race in a Small Alabama Community” came out a few months back and “Remembering my Forebears: The Turbervilles of Greensboro and the Mays of Hollow Square and Sawyerville, Hale County, Alabama” is available in both paperback and eBook editions on February 1, 2024.They are, in my opinion, companion pieces, each one shedding some light on the other.
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A few weeks back I downloaded from Kindle Direct Publishing a program called Kindle Create. I made use of it on an earlier project, but now I wanted to create something in which that program would take the central role. Hence the compilation “Star-Gazing and Navel-Gazing: Art, Artists, and Me.”
To honor his life on the occasion of its passing I will share a chapter from my not-yet-published “Star-Gazing and Navel-Gazing: Art, Artists, and Me.”
16. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (AND OTHERS)
Flora Eloise Pickens was born on October 6, 1886 into great wealth and social position on Umbria Plantation in Sawyerville, Alabama. She died on August 12, 1964 as a charity case at the nursing home in Greensboro, her only possessions being her wedding ring and a photograph of her late husband, Will Lunsford, who had died in 1943. She had pawned that wedding ring, but a niece, upon discovering that, had redeemed it and restored it to her.
Life is filled with mysteries. Why did that uncle kill himself? Why did that aunt seem to hate me so when I was a child? Sometimes the mystery is a person. Cousin Pickett, a standard fixture of my childhood, is a mystery to me, and the older I get the more mysterious I find him.
I know some facts. But what do they tell me? |
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