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...that many Mississippians believed the assurances of their leaders that defiance could succeed. A close friend of impeccable Mississippi lineage (his great-grandfather was wounded in the charge at Gettysburg) was captain of a National Guard unit that was federalized. The other day we were standing on the back porch of my bungalow on the fringes of the campus. He gazed out toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most, he said...
...Three of us were sharing an apartment on Cedar St. in 1972," he recalls. "I was sleeping on a raised platform above the back porch for 30 bucks a month. There were six drugheads crashing on the living room floor and shooting up in the bathroom. We didn't want them there, but they were friends of our grass connection and didn't have any place else to stay...
...group's highly regarded artistic director, Jon Jory, is an adventurous risk-taker, but this time he may simply have put together too speculative a production portfolio. His gamble on a front-porch theme of exploring U.S. rural small-town roots, ranging in time from 1915 to 1951, produces the unintended illusion of leafing through old Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell...
...army truck screeches to a stop in front of our neighbor's house. Twelve soldiers jump out shouting. Clutching their clubs and guns, they barge onto the porch. They think that some boys who threw stones are hiding there. Our neighbor insists that there is no one except her in the house. To no avail. They demand that she give them the key to the upstairs flat. She says the owner is on a trip to the U.S., but they are not convinced. Three of them go back to their truck, get axes and saws and knock the steel...
...carry their son to his resting place. The funeral cortege is broken up by soldiers who fire in the air and lob tear-gas canisters into the crowd. On the way home from the funeral, I see an 80-year-old man being dragged by soldiers from his front porch and forced at gunpoint to clear the streets of debris...