I wander America on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, sleep on couches and in fifty-dollar motel rooms, eat at Waffle House and Main Street cafes, and have conversations with people whose politics I might not agree with. These are our stories.
Cody, Justin and Cole Porter
Cole Porter is from Peru, Indiana. Apparently the town is reluctant to celebrate its most notable son because he was gay.
Robert Preston’s America
Southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa were as charismatic as ever, tall corn lapping against pretty farm buildings, rolling hills and gently winding roads with little traffic, well-tended towns with kids in shorts celebrating their last days of freedom, the skies blue and the weather not too hot.
Apologies
Ursula’s a born-again Christian and has those insufferable beliefs. But why wouldn’t she? The Christian right has aggressively courted her and we don’t even talk to her…
The Revival
The Harley Davidson Revival represents America at one of its finest hours, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Civil Rights, color TVs in walnut cabinets, shag carpeting.
Ursula
Ursula, a thrice divorced born-again Christian who rides a Harley and has a prosthetic leg.
Headstones from the 1700s
Headstones from the 1700s
Trail of Tears
A group of Indian nations consisting of the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, the Muscogee and the Seminole (the “five civilized tribes”) were forcibly relocated from their ancestral homes in the southeastern United States to areas west of the Mississippi. Along the way, thousands died of exposure, disease and starvation. Yesterday I rode parts of the Trail of Tears.
Confederate Outhouse
Confederate Outhouse
City of Lights
Jayde was a victim of sex trafficking by men in the Marine Corps and unable to escape. Her mother hadn’t believed her.
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