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"A Picture From Life's Other Side."
New Year's Eve in Huntsville, Alabama.
Poverty is alive and well in America.
My travels this Christmas season through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama suggest this song -- written by the late Townes Van Zandt -- is a reasonably accurate portrait of our current economy.
For the poor there is perennial economic depression with a constant danger of layoff.
I have met many of these brave "Carolines" -- and known them -- though only in a distant, non-carnal way.
They often bottle sadness in a smile -- but sometimes there can be no smile when times are tough.
New Year's Eve in Huntsville, Alabama.
Poverty is alive and well in America.
My travels this Christmas season through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama suggest this song -- written by the late Townes Van Zandt -- is a reasonably accurate portrait of our current economy.
For the poor there is perennial economic depression with a constant danger of layoff.
I have met many of these brave "Carolines" -- and known them -- though only in a distant, non-carnal way.
They often bottle sadness in a smile -- but sometimes there can be no smile when times are tough.
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