My mother was standing in a hotel room in Virginia Beach a few weeks ago, snapping open a small box and pulling out a tangle of necklace, when a thin gold band tumbled out with it. She saw it and laughed. My sister Meg saw it and laughed.
The New York Times Magazine editor calls Sally Mann two or three times a year offering assignments. Jodi Foster, Al Gore, a dead body in Tennessee.
“And I have to turn her down,” says Mann. “I don’t do editorial work.”
Fifteen years ago, I would have been mortified.
I’m driving downtown on a cool spring Saturday evening, headed to Hotel Roanoke.
I’m going to the prom.
My first prom since 1991.
Doc Watson is a legend in mountain music. Now 81 years old, he’s not had an easy life, starting with a childhood infection that left him blind from his first few years of life.
Since becoming the host of “Fresh Air” in 1975, when it was still a local show out of Philadelphia, Terry Gross has talked with everyone, it seems, from politicians to movie stars.
