Andrew Dys
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A guy named Terry Thomas sat next to a woman named Rene Shepherd on Thursday at the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen. They sat at the last table against the wall, on the far end from where four volunteer women served turkey and dressing, bread and tea, corn and cake.
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Heroes come in all kinds of packages. War heroes who get Bronze Stars. Sports heroes who get gold medals. Lady heroes who help catch bank robbers should get silver-laden thank-yous from every one of us who hopes our neighbors care about us.
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It took a death to bring home the music. But 41 years after his father died — and just last month his brother died, too — Brian Nicosia has something to remember both by. That something is sturdy and metal, shiny and sweet-sounding, beautiful. Brian Nicosia now has the trumpet that belonged to his father and was the inspiration to a generation of Rock Hill band students.
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At the Canadian Embassy on Thursday night, magic happened. Elwin Wilson, who had hated blacks for so long, who beat up a black man named John Lewis at the Rock Hill bus station in 1961 and then apologized 48 years later in words and actions that shook the world, told Lewis “I love you.”
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Tonight, there will be applause. Tonight, Elwin Wilson from Rock Hill and U.S. Rep. John Lewis from Georgia will stand on a stage together and accept awards that show they do not despise each other.
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The Army National Guard unit from Fort Mill is on active training duty and could be sent to Afghanistan, according to multiple sources.
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The golden neon sign flickered in front of the plate-glass window, behind the bride. "Open 24 hours" it told passers-by on Rock Hill's Heckle Boulevard near Cherry Road. Next to her left shoulder, above the flowers in her hands, the machine blared, "Soap Stop."
