1
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m zin
e per on c n be 0
rai tent, ccur te, utom tic,
as if progr med to get under
)lQur kin. It' m zin nd if
it n't the mo t eriou
�in I now of, it would be
�Dny. But the f ct of the
. tteri : S m' c 11 aw ened
me at 4:31 a.m. nd while I
stru led to t y w ke, he
ld, "Wrotel" Then he told me
about hi I te t dventure.
, S m aid the award he
bel to ed I t week, the bad
nd the ugly, left a di gu ting
(a te in his mouth and thi pa t
weekend he decided to crui e,
S'am tyle.
, The fir t thing he did was
he dre sed for the occa ion
but he didn't h ve the lighte t
ide what he might encounter
10 he wore hi low riding
�}ltfit-home made cutoff, a
World War II weat hirt, a
beat up floppy traw hat and
he c tried a ix pack of blue
ca ettes: Muddy Waters,
Howling Wolf, John Lee
Hooker, Koko Taylor, Etta
l me and Bobby Rush's Sue.
He crui ed the back beat
eighborhoods of Detroit and
Jlighland Park.
He began by crui ing the
outheast; down in the Mack,
venue and Garland Street
rea. He said the people in that
rea looked different; that they
ooked tired. Hopeless. And
e area, for the mos t part, he
aid, w� in different stages of
ecay.
SAM SAID the newe t and
rightest structure in the
etghborhood, at least what he
w. was a funcra' homc. A
lace t· dre p �
e dead.
-. Sam left the neighborhood
nd drove to the west side of
etroit. His bl ues were
lasting like ninety going
orth and when he crossed
, 'tIarren at Grand River, he
aid, a twang like the broken
ring of a gut bucket guitar
apped in his heart.
• Sam said he went up one
treet and down another .and
'II he saw was chaos: the sad
minders of how the greedy
�ve the plush life at the
expense of the downtrodden.
In case you don't know it
ister Mayor, Sam said your
ty has been raped.
Sam said his mind began to
eat icicle ; that his blood
robbed like the morning
ter and if it had not been for
ger, tears would have
�shed. So he headed toward
",hat he thought woul have
*en safety; Highlan Park,
afld·got hit srnackdab in the
iddle of his last ounce of
�tience.
� Highland Park, he said, was
.,so a tragedy of structures the
rkh and not so famous have
I ft behind.
LIKE A TURKEY running
rough the corn, they were
ne and the ad reminders:
e pty, gutted buildings
s nding in a sea of weeds and
r bbish beckoned; hawked the
remembrances for all to see.
, And so Sam rolled up his
indows, turned Etta James up
to the max end shouted a
N:athaniel Scott poem:
� dlady
Redlady
Aedlady
blues baby, blues. .
skintight lady
watching sun disappear
, balled fury;
cut in the rough life
• meets resistance
head-on,
winking at tribulation
and bare breast
standing the swelling
storm.
• blues baby, blue.
And that, Sam said, is the
ottom line.
HIGHLAND PARK
Jul KlrkI nd of HI hi nd P rk hOWD hookln tructor Andre
Derret up to n e ctrocardl m m chine durin the b
workshop at Michl n lechnologlcal University.
H.
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Julian Kirkland of Highland Park
i shown hooking instructor Andrea
Derret up to an electrocardiogram
machine during the bioengineering
workshop at Michigan Technologi
cal University.
Julian Kirkland of Highland Park
attended Michigan Tech's annual
Minorities in Engineering program,
held recently on the MTU campus.
Participants are chosen on a com
petitive basis and must have a strong
background in mathematics and
cience, Kirkland, son of Peggy
Kirkland, is ajunior at Ferndale High
School where he is vice president of
J I' Acbi v nt and a mem-
r ot t 'nch club hd eft
Against Driving Drunk.
He lso participates in cross
country and track.
AI 0 attending the program was
Karen Johnson of Highland Park.
Johnson, daughter of Bernice
Johnson, is a senior at Cass Technical
High School where she i a member
of the choir and orche tra and is an
environmental engineering co-op
student. She also participates in var
sity basketball.
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City of
Highland Park
VOTE·
Sept. 10th
·1991
CommIa ..
Moreov r, rding to S nilac
County record ,th 1
tax ,S9,749.11; th 1 county
t xes, 16,816.73; nd, th 1991
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