Word: minyard
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...that lined the streets, were streaming by, red and sweating. There was a mediocre jazz band playing down on the corner, loud. The band, which plays all day long on the cornrt below my friend's apartment, is run by the cotoner of New Orieans, a man named Dr.Frank Minyard who decided one day that being coroner was boring and so called some of his friends, put on a Hawaiian shirt, and went down to the corner of Royal and St.Peter Streets and began to play mediocre jazz, which although he is still coroner, he continues to do almost every...
...tall-backed wooden chair, altogether by hand, just as he learned from his own father. Photos, diagrams and his taped words capture the craft completely. They also catch the man. A collection of hunting stories grows taller and taller, ending of course with bear; it is capped by old Minyard Conner's scandalous yarn of how his granddaddy killed the bear that caught him with his britches down...