Where were you when the Verdict came down

I was in the parking lot of the colonial fish market on Cherokee Ave in Gaffney SC right down from the church where WJ Cash was baptized.  Had heard on way in and hoped to be back in the car at five for the top of the hour NPR report. I was also in Gaffney in Ms Goforth's Sixth grade  in 1963 when Kennedy was assasinated and home in time after Church on Anthony Street to see Oswald killed. It was on Anthony Street in 62 on way to church I heard Marilyn Monroe had died on a Sunday Morming. George Singleton says his grandmother used to work as a bartender for Jack Ruby but he was only four years old at the time.

      That's an aside the title of Singleton new collection of true stories which arent much different from his fiction. Said his Daddy made a big scene and walked out of a Baptist church Singleton names in Asides cause the racist mill workers didnt want any "niggers" in the church. Singleton uses that one incident to cast aspersions on all of Christianity but he has a Guggenheim and I don't so what can you say.

     Reason I was in Gaffney was nice day and had lunch with two Gaffney high classmates in Spartanburg then rode on down to Pacolet to meet their acclaimend administrator but she had retired. Jolly Rogers BBQ was closed so went up the Gaffney Pacolet HWY passed Goucher and Jimmy Baker region of Cherokee County on to medidtate in the parking lot of Bethany Baptist Church where my Dad was the pastor from 62-78.

     Went over to Cherokee Avenue for the Midway Food Truck Hash but they didnt show up so got some perch at the Colonial to go. Kind Priee and I will be back.

     Tried to outsmsrt the Pelham Rd exit traffic on my return to no avail. Dicey six miles every time.

    I was an hour early so went to Barnes and Noble on Woodruff Road. Saw a new word in a poem in the New yorker I will have to retrieve.

     Had great lunch. Names of some white women came up as did Al Mohler and Russell Moore as one classmate was on financial advisory committee for SBTS. Indian Food was kinda bland purposely as they are doing lunch buffett for first months. Kinda pricey for my upbringing but I will go back for the spice later.