The Daily Novel

All of my life I’ve been running away. I ran away from Man when he needed me. I ran away when Johnny Lewis tried to love me, because that was not the kind of love I wanted, and I couldn’t tell him that. I ran from Tupelo over and over, but no matter where I [...]

The sixties
We all graduated from Tupelo High in the spring of 1961, all but Sam Littlejohn, who had to repeat a year and eventually dropped out. Cassie graduated with top honors. After graduation, she went to New York to study dance. J.P. and Marybelle were married in June. Travis enrolled in the Memphis Art Academy [...]

Spring of 1961
Tupelo
Anticipation, alive and palpable like a covey of quail flushed by a hunting dog, fluttered over the town of Tupelo. Elvis Presley was coming to town, coming back home to perform at the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show—at the fairgrounds anyway; the actual fair had come and gone back around Halloween. A [...]