The Dying Crapshooter's Blues
“The car moved slowly, bouncing through the ruts in the hard red clay as the rear end, laden with the several hundred pounds of recording gear that was crammed in the trunk, scraped over exposed rocks.
The driver of the sedan, Jacob Stein—Jake to his friends—was relieved to see the signs announcing it was only another three miles to Atlanta. It had been a long drive, a good part of it on rural southern roads. The newly minted graduate of Fordham had heard the stories, knew the territory below th...e Pennsylvania state line could be hostile for some types, and he wondered if the city they were approaching, by far the largest in the South, would prove any less so. It was, after all, the locale of the infamous Leo Frank case, which had transpired only eight years before. He had read in the New York papers how that tragedy had drawn Jewish communities together at the same time it enhanced the power of the Ku Klux Klan. As if to punctuate this recollection, a half mile farther on, he peered to his right to see a building marked with a proud banner identifying the headquarters of that same organization.MoreLess
The driver of the sedan, Jacob Stein—Jake to his friends—was relieved to see the signs announcing it was only another three miles to Atlanta. It had been a long drive, a good part of it on rural southern roads. The newly minted graduate of Fordham had heard the stories, knew the territory below th...e Pennsylvania state line could be hostile for some types, and he wondered if the city they were approaching, by far the largest in the South, would prove any less so. It was, after all, the locale of the infamous Leo Frank case, which had transpired only eight years before. He had read in the New York papers how that tragedy had drawn Jewish communities together at the same time it enhanced the power of the Ku Klux Klan. As if to punctuate this recollection, a half mile farther on, he peered to his right to see a building marked with a proud banner identifying the headquarters of that same organization.MoreLess
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