Tony, one of the cashiers, had actually been to Woodstock (I learned that when once we were all talking about the famous festival, and I proudly stated that I saw the movie); Milo (who worked there briefly) also wrote for the Boston Phoenix; Barb Kitson, who always wore tight outfits ...
"[In] summer the granite curbs starred with mica and the row houses differentiated by speckled bastard sidings and the hopeful small porches with their jigsaw brackets and gray milk-bottle boxes and the sooty ginkgo trees and the banking curbside cars wince beneath a brilliance like a frozen ex...
unpainted shotgun houses, slanted porches falling off brick piers. City Fathers thought the name undignified, not in keeping with their New South image, Ledbetter Heights sounded good. Named after Lead Belly, the black blues man who played in dark bordellos when the Bottoms glowed in red lights...