The South is a “society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in speech,” Flannery O’Connor wrote. These are “the gifts of the region.” I’ve got to be SEEING constantly, picking out people who seem to have some whereabouts about them, ask for stories, dreams for their lives, dreams for America. I’ll have two full days to sit in the historic squares of Savannah and ask people on the benches questions.
I’m taking a digital recorder. I hope, after the ice is broken and the conversation rolling, that people will accept being recorded rather than asking me to take notes, as this tires my arm out.
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