The Thomas Berryman Number (2006)
“The series was called “A Walker’s Guide to Shantytown,” but it ran in the Citizen-Reporter as “Black Lives.”
It wasn’t a bad writing job, but it was more a case of being in the right place at the right time: I’d written life-affirming stories about a black man in Tennessee, just a year after Martin Luther King had died there.
It felt right to people who judged things somewhere. They said the series was “vital.”
So I was lucky in ’69.
I figured things were beginning to even out the day I drove i...nto the William Pound Institute in West Hampton, Long Island. On account of my assignment there I wouldn’t be writing any of the article about Horn’s murder. The good Horn assignments had already gone elsewhere. Higher up.
I parked my rent-a-car in a crowded yard marked ALL HOSPITAL VISITORS ALL. Then, armed with tape recorder, suitcoat over my arm too, I made my way along a broken flagstone path tunneling through bent old oak trees.
I didn’t really notice a lot about the hospital at first.MoreLess
It wasn’t a bad writing job, but it was more a case of being in the right place at the right time: I’d written life-affirming stories about a black man in Tennessee, just a year after Martin Luther King had died there.
It felt right to people who judged things somewhere. They said the series was “vital.”
So I was lucky in ’69.
I figured things were beginning to even out the day I drove i...nto the William Pound Institute in West Hampton, Long Island. On account of my assignment there I wouldn’t be writing any of the article about Horn’s murder. The good Horn assignments had already gone elsewhere. Higher up.
I parked my rent-a-car in a crowded yard marked ALL HOSPITAL VISITORS ALL. Then, armed with tape recorder, suitcoat over my arm too, I made my way along a broken flagstone path tunneling through bent old oak trees.
I didn’t really notice a lot about the hospital at first.MoreLess
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