by Ruth Wagner
He Had a Dream
More than forty years ago.
More than forty years ago.
More than forty years ago.
In Memphis, a garbage workers’ strike.
In South Carolina, in Gullah Country, a cabin retreat being built.
Shots ring out.
An unfinished life.
An unfinished cabin.

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A photo essay
mildly revised Nov. 24

Theft, I said, pure and simple, theft. I was remarking on the takeover of the boardwalks behind the South Padre Island Convention Center that, for the last decade or so, have been free and open to the public. Sometime soon they will be padlocked on the Convention Center side and [...]

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A photo essay

Rovan’s was one of the two places to go for a breakfast when you were on South Padre Island through the Eighties and Nineties. There were probably others, but the baked goods at Rovan’s and the sweet stacks of pancakes with plenty of butter and syrup made it pointless to look elsewhere. That [...]

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