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Homewood, PA, 1950. Where the "summer night air was always sticky kind of air, that had that stinkin mill smoke stuck all in it." Where "Gus Goins's place was down off the tracks, down in that alley behind Fiance St." It is a place very different from James Agee's "Knoxville: Summer 1915" but no less lyrical--only the rhythms are different, a blues beat as opposed to symphonic strains. For alley residents, the struggles and joys of "gett...Log In or Sign Up to Read More