Oct 15, 2019

Do You Know Lisman, Alabama?

     I had to look it up on a map....really small, small-town Alabama.    
     Towards the Mississippi line. We call if the back belt because of the rich soil, though in recent years, every-time I write that explanation it feels less true.

     Now it is a trending story on The Washington Post, the kind of story Yankee reporters like Stephanie McCrummen love to write about hardscrabble, dirt-poor, tiny Alabama towns.  She describes it as one of the least powerful places in Alabama and who can argue?
     
     The story has poverty, small-towness, with race and politics and lots of color, most of it black. And a parade too.
     And excellent photography, like the photo below, by the Post's Michael S. Williamson
     Read it.
 
 

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