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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3407 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention So this morning it was a trip down Branchview Native Dancer (James Lineberger) to pay the car insurance, the long way around, because they've taken out the old bridge on Cabarrus and I was wishing while they're at it they would rechristen the avenue with its original name, Depot Street, even though the depot is long gone, and Stephen Cabarrus, of Edenton, was a fairly well-known person in his day, I suppose, several times a member of the Legislature and four times speaker of the House of Commons, back in the seventeen hundreds. But anybody can see how Depot Street has a certain poetry to it, while Cabarrus is one of those foreign-sounding words nobody can spell right that shouldn't have anything named after it not even this "bridge" which is really not a real bridge at all but a kind of culvert buried in the ground and covered over with road and yesterday Bill Arrowood's wife died, a person who was never known for anything but being his secretary at the law office, which she was really good at until her heart gave out and she had to retire, and i just wanted to say i knew Phyllis back in high school but the one time i had to see her husband about some legal matter, she didn't remember me from Adam, and what was it I was trying to say oh yes, Phyllis! Phyllis! it wasn't till the day you died that it came back to me your maiden name was Dorton! a highly holy name among the many others that will never dignify a street in this town or even a culvert pretending to be a bridge and just think if you had married somebody like me you would not have had a wonderful caring husband like Bill to push you around in your wheelchair, just this loser whose name you couldn't recall until the bank bounced his check and he had to come crawling back to give you the cash and you smiled that radiant smile you had and said oh god it's you isn't it, little Jimmy Lineberger, who used to live over on Depot and went away and got famous. |
