Writer of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Master Photographer
(This originally appeared in the Aug. 12 issue of The Nashville Graphic in Michael’s “The Soapbox” column.) My mama and I were both voracious readers when I was growing up. However, we never got to meet many writers — just two that I can recall. One was Roy Wilder Jr. of Spring Hope,…
Jazz legend Thelonious Sphere Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on October 10, 1917. The son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, his home was on Green Street in an area known as “Around the Y,” after a railroad bend nearby. It was a well-to-do area in the city’s black community. When Monk was…