The movie Casablanca came out in 1942, the same year my characters Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson were born. I love the opening scene for Bogart where director Michael Curtiz has the camera find character, Rick Blaine, playing a solitary game of chess. At the start of my writing process for Peach Seed Monkey, before deciding… Continue reading Checkmate
Month: November 2011
More from Hazard Drive
Nothing like gettng to know your hometown by making it a character in your novel. Same is true of your childhood street. On both my recent research trips back to Albany I walked up and down the old Hazard Drive (now College Drive) mourning the houses and people that populated it in the 1960s. The… Continue reading More from Hazard Drive
Oh ~ So this is what a first draft feels like!
I promised to keep y’all updated on the progress of Peach Seed Monkey so here I am (finally) with a real update. Thanksgiving is two days away so I’m also here to give thanks ~ first to you for visiting/reading/subscribing to the PSM blog. It’s been quiet the past couple of weeks for good reason… Continue reading Oh ~ So this is what a first draft feels like!
50 Years After the Albany Movement
Albany Civil Rights Institute, June 2011 (ACRI) Photo: A.G. Jones While in Albany researching the novel in June 2011, I snapped the picture above during the opening reception of the SNCC 50th Anniversary of the Albany Movement. The Movement was founded on November 17, 196, so ACRI has had many festivities throughout 2011… Continue reading 50 Years After the Albany Movement
Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968
My family was living on Hazard Drive in Albany, Georgia when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968—my late mother’s 42nd birthday. I was two months shy of 14 and felt doubly sad—that King’s life had been snuffed out and my mother would cry for him on her birthday. Five weeks later, on… Continue reading Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968
Powerful Reserve
Notch > November 1st On this day in 1961, SNCC workers Charles Sherrod and Cordell Reagon, along with nine members of the NAACP Youth Council—funded by local business man Tom Chatmon—test new Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) rules at Trailways bus station in Albany, Georgia. Meeting Rev. Charles Sherrod at the 50th Anniversary of the Albany… Continue reading Powerful Reserve