What’s “Valentino drag” ?
Can you buy tickets in advance, or is it at the door only? Looks like Kermit and the BBQ Swingers are playing a show on the 20th when I'll be in town, so I'd like to grab tickets in advance if possible. Seems like there is no website, only a Facebook page that hasn't been updated in a long while.
They're filming a music video tonight at 6pm at Teddy's. It's dancing music and everybody is invited
In the juke joint, Henrietta could let her inhibitions fall away. It was the one place she felt free...not that it didn’t carry its own set of wondering eyes that couldn’t wait to gossip about the goings on of Hayward Taylor’s only unwed daughter. Florence, Josephine, Savannah, Centralia, and Lillie had all gotten married before the age of 20 and it was unthought of to be unmarried at 27 years old, let alone for it to be by choice. In her teens and early twenties many suitors had pursued her and her father had done his best trying to marry her off so that he and her mother, Mary could enjoy the sunset of their lives. Henrietta wanted nothing more than for her parents to be at peace with her life choices, hell, she was at peace with them. She had explained to them time and time again that every woman doesn’t desire to be a wife and mother and that there was purpose outside of those two roles. She also wasn’t sure that she’d never desire those things, it’s just that she didn’t want or need them right now. Besides, she had plenty of time to have a baby or two. Her mother had had her at 42 and her baby brother who they affectionately called Lil Brother at 43. Even Lil Brother had gone off and gotten married after he returned from the war.
“Henrietta...Henrietta Taylor? Thatchu?!” Henrietta looked in the direction of the familiar voice and was stunned to see little Henry Miller. Henry Miller had been a childhood friend of hers who’d moved away with his family up north when they were 14. She had not seen or heard from him since the day they left in the summer of 33. She couldn’t contain her excitement when she saw him.
“Twin, I can’t believe what I’m seeing! Why, you went up north and forgot about us down home folks”, she said as she stood to hug him.
“Never,” he said with a somber look in his eyes. “I was told I could find you here.”
“Hmph, well they told you right. This here’s my rightful stomping grounds,” she said brusquely as they sat down at the round mahogany pedestal table. “What brought you back to Hobson City?”
Henry paused, studying Henrietta’s face before he responded. “I’m an investigative journalist now and I’m here on an assignment.”
“Mighty fancy title you got there...so in other words you’re here to snoop? Please tell me this ain’t about the lynchings of those two young couples. Don’t go getting yourself lynched too rousing up these white devils.”
Henrietta was so vehement in her response that Henry didn’t know how to tell her that tha
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