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...this trailer park off of a New Orleans highway felt foreign for so many other reasons. There was the white gravel sabotaging my high heels, the barefoot kids flinging tiny firecrackers into the sky, the bowlegged mutt slurping Wonderbread and canned beans, and the Vietnamese men lazing on a porch...
...story I was looking for. Thousands of Vietnamese immigrants had settled on the outskirts of the Big Easy, choosing a steamy, tropical climate much like the one they had left behind. They lived in bedroom communities and saw each other every Sunday at Mass. A walk away from the porch was a strip mall promising tattoos, manicures, and groceries, and the clerks greeted customers in their language. It’s easy to get by without English, so that’s what many...
...porch hardly believed my excuses. If I listened, I would understand, they told...
...culture, nostalgia or the American experience should miss Frank King's Walt and Skeezix. "Gasoline Alley," with its gently paced melodrama, its charming humor, its caricatures, its cars, its countryside and its cityscape, fairly overflows with American iconography. Ideally, it should be taken out on a back screen porch on a warm afternoon, with a glass of cool lemonade and an old Western Electric circulating fan to thrum back and forth. But even without these accouterments, you will be swept away to another, bygone world...
...never heard of the visitor who stood on the porch of his North Carolina farm, but Carl Sandburg could sure spot a comer. "You look like you are ready for anything," the old poet said. "I would like to ask you about 40 good questions...