Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Introduction 1 Part I: The Makers 5 William Christenberry: Pilgrimage of the Heart 7 A visual artist in search of the essence of rural byways and childhood haunts Charles Moore: Witness to Change 15 A photojournalist''s nation-shaking images of the civil rights movement Bernice Sims: A Folk Artist''s Stamp on History 25 A folk artist renders the past, and the passing scene, in rich colors Kathryn Tucker Windham and Charlie Lucas: Kathryn and the "Tin Man" 30 She tells ghost stories; he makes art from metal; they are neighbors and best friends Part II: The Tellers 37 Mary Ward Brown: Black Belt Storyteller 39 A first-time author at age 69, she still hears the muse twenty years later Sena Jeter Naslund: A Story Deep Inside Her 46 A novelist turns to a civil rights tragedy as basis for a wrenching tale Diane McWhorter: Taking Pictures from the Inside 53 A journalist weaves hometown Birmingham''s tumultuous history with her own Frye Gaillard: Writing His Way Home 61 Leaving behind Mobile in his 20s, a native son returns in his 50s to start anew Artelia Bendolph: The Girl in the Window 67 Aged and blind, a woman tells of her famous, long-ago photograph in Gee''s Bend Eugene Sledge: "With the Old Breed" 75 The WWII memoirist speaks of his boyhood, the war, and a book he had to write Part III: The Journeyers 81 Mel Allen: "Voice of the Yankees" 83 His homerun cry, "Going, going, gone!" captivated baseball fans everywhere Gay Talese: Made in Alabama 91 A train to Tuscaloosa began his journey to becoming a famous New Journalist Howell Raines: Coming Full Circle 99 Meditations on a legendary newspaper career and different paths taken Winston Groom: The House That Gump Built 105 When Forrest Gump told his story, he transformed the author''s world, too Tommy Tarrants and Stan Chassin: Deliver Us from Evil 111 A Jew and a Klansman, violence and forgiveness, lives intersecting after over forty years Part IV: Witnesses to the Movement 123 Neil Davis: Tough, Sweet Voice of Reason 125 The editor from Auburn brought his pen to bear on a time of strife and hope Vivian Malone and James Hood: The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 133 The University of Alabama''s first black students recall the day the nation watched George Wallace Jr.: The Loyal Son 141 Loving, defending, and coming to terms with a father controversial to the world Johnnie Carr: Sustaining the Dream 148 In her 90s, the Montgomery Improvement Association''s leader keeps on Theresa Burroughs: In Beauty''s Care 156 When Dr. King needed safety in Greensboro, her beauty shop was his refuge Part V: Down Back Roads 163 Sara Hamm: Keeping the Faith 165 In the last Jewish family in Eufaula, a woman strives to keep traditions vibrant Restoring Rosenwald: The Oak Grove School 170 Former students shore up the legacy of Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington Bessie Papas: A Malbis Life 176 Residing at the Greek Orthodox settlement since 1920, she tells of a vanished world Edward Carl and Walter Bellingrath: Driving Mr. Bellingrath 185 From behind the wheel of a Packard limousine, an unusual friendship develops William Bolton and Herbert Henson: Visiting Old Pals 192 At the coon dog cemetery, old cousins reminisce about dogs they''ve known Scoop, Red, Moon, and Shorty: The Oak Tree Social Club 197 For twenty years the domino game has continued, as has the talk and the laughter Part VI: Different Windows on Dixie 203 Yolande "Bebe" Betbeze: Cinderella in Charge 205 Miss America 1951 looks back on a life of beauty, social conviction, and controversy Alex Alvarez: Voices from the Past 217 In south Alabama, a Creek language teacher deepens his Native American culture Abby Fisher: "What Miss Fisher Knows about Old Home Cooking" 223 The elusive author of what was, possibly, the first African American cookbook Part VII: Personal Sojourns 231 Greetings from Brooklyn, Alabama 233 A sojourn from one Brooklyn to another Joe Bear: Ice Cream Man 238 A summer job, a Polish immigrant''s tale, and the clanging bells of freedom Windows: A Son Remembers 246 The nameplate was still on the door: Charles Hoffman, Lawyer Acknowledgments 253 Permissions 255 About the Author 258.