Tuesday July 28th, 2009
My Childhood Trinity, Part One
Throughout my childhood in a small town outside Chicago, I idolized just three larger-than-life figures: Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley and Leadbelly, aka “Huddie Ledbetter”. Everything and everyone else in popular culture washed over me. I worshipped each god in this trinity, so to speak, in equal strength and measure. Elvis was the problematic idol—he had […]