Cell Phone service.
You coulda facebook messaged me emailed me at
smfoxbama@hotmail.com or asked for my cell number and texted.
I had a full weekend with Sacred Harp and first home football game of the year, plus a flat tire so things woulda been logistically difficult.
But you are welcome to come again. We could coordinate with Keith and Lamar and go Dutch. I may even bring my friend, my platonic celibate friend who talked to Tom Haden and knew the son of Civil Rights martyr Viola Liuzzo and Luke of Luke my friend what about young Anna Lee from the Band's The Weight to make it interesting for the literary imaginations of Lamar.
The Prince and the Shooger Booger are in Americus these days and my script collaborator has aspergers so he is doubtful.
There is a place in Mentone which a month ago was voted best catfish in the state but you only get one piece and their famous skillet cornbread for 15 dollars. I can make my own cornbread so we can skip that and go all you can eat catfish in nearby Cloudland, Ga on the East Brow of Lookout Mtn.
Or we can do Mtn Grill Restaurant near Leesburg. Respectable but he's a closet Jew on the menu fronting as devout Church of Christ.
If you come on a Saturday morning I can give you a tour of the famous Local Flea Market--see Rick Bragg in Southern Living for a Goat and Ball Peen hammer--and show you Pine Grove Church on Lookout Mtn where my Grandfather born 1881 taught one room school.
And if you come on the right weekend, maybe we can go a few lots down from my place and talk to George Wallace Jr who comes up this way three or four times a year to skeet shoot with a neighbor.
Or milkshake with Frank who contested Bear Legend Danny Ford, the Clemson Coach who won Natty in 81.
In meantime read my latest blog. It's a review of former Charlotte Observer columnist magnicent chronicle of the 60s , Hard Rain. Three references to Marshall Frady which I spotlight.