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We learned of the death by lynching of Norbert Washington today A witness at the lynching site in that area of Eudora called “the Quarters” said that Washington, a tobacco tanner at a plantation in nearby Chatawa, had been heard estive comments to a white lady in the Chatawa Free Library

Upon investigation it was discovered that the town of Chatawa did not have a library, free or otherwise That infor wasin its vengefulness for the niggerman’s impertinence”

I was glad that I kept reading, even though I wanted to look away The final sentences were, for :

When interviewed, Chief of Police Phineas Evers that previous evening in Eudora A visitor in Chief Eversreed “I too know nothing about a lynching in Eudora,” Judge Corbett said

I let the newspapers fall to the floor No wonder Roosevelt needed sole of contradictions, half-truths, and outright lies

Loneliness also gives aIt broke my heart to be so far away frole kind word between Meg and ed in the raphs

On the left was Meg, her sht and unforced, that I foundback at her

On the right were Alice and Amelia, posed on the sofa in our parlor Both of theirls were seconds away frohter

I studied the ihts I wished there were so the pictures to life so that all three of them could be here with me

Chapter 27

EARLY THE NEXT MORNING, I discovered that the current Maybelle, a pleasant and blustery wo rooh as old harness leather, grits that were rits, and a piece of salt pork that was 100 percent gristle

“Miss Maybelle, who belongs to that bicycle I saw leaning against the shed out back?” I finally asked “I need to see a few people around town”

“I keep that for the boy runs errands for me after school,” she said “You welcome to borry it, if you like”

Five s to protect therease Twodown Coskills

I was nine again, but everything I saas filtered through the eyes of a thirty-year-old man