Blind Tom lives! An ex-slave and piano wunderkind dazzles the public (again) in a heartbreaking show, now on tour. (Critic's Notebook).(Hush: Composing Blind Tom Wiggins)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, February, 2003 by Brock, Wendell
Saying that the South remains ambivalent about its past is as obvious as writing black words on white paper. A few years ago, when a prominent Atlanta woman tried to restore a dilapidated apartment building where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind, arsonists torched the place twice.
Back in 1996, one of the most difficult decisions of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games was how to deal with the issues of Civil War and slavery--topics that ultimately were glossed over in the globally televised opening ceremonies. So while monuments to the Confederate dead dot the ...
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