America Is A Great Story And There

There Is Such A Thing As A National Conscience, And It Can Be Touched.

I Have Spent A Good Part Of My Life Looking For The Perfect Barbecue. There Is No Point In Looking In Places Like Texas, Where They Put Some Kind Of Ketchup On Beef And Call It Barbecue. Barbecue Is Pork, Which Narrows The Search To The South, And If It's Really Good Pork Barbecue You Are Looking For, To North Carolina.

I Did Stories About Unexpected Encounters, Back Roads, Small Towns And Ordinary Folk, Sometimes Doing Something A Little Extraordinary.

The Mississippi River Carries The Mud Of Thirty States And Two Provinces 2,000 Miles South To The Delta And Deposits 500 Million Tons Of It There Every Year. The Business Of The Mississippi, Which It Will Accomplish In Time, Is Methodically To Transport All Of Illinois To The Gulf Of Mexico.

You Know, Most Reporters Can't Go Back To The Towns They Wrote Stories About. I Never Wrote That Kind Of Story.