one doesn't hear much about Harlem anymore; one being out here in Ohio

one doesn't hear much about Harlem anymore; one being out here in Ohio

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


One doesn't hear much about Harlem anymore if one is out here in Ohio. Separated by space and time from Harlem one doesn't hear the news about what's happening there.

Do they still think STEM schools, science, technology, math etc. are the Future for the Youth of America? Is Poverty still insidious up that way? Are there still relationships between unemployment and basic dignity in families? Do Black celebrities check in there from time to time?

Author is heading out to Manhattan by third class train tonight in the fifteen degree sub zero weather to see the art museums. Author would like to visit the Cloister's museum near Harlem again if a Manhattan taxi will take me there at a reasonable price so I can maybe catch up on the News from Harlem, New York, February 2015.

 One from here in Ohio can learn a lot about America from visiting Harlem.

Here's what I wrote before about someone like myself going to Harlem a good many years back;

A union Plumber comes to Harlem

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

It's not raining and he's carrying an umbrella and it's not cold and he's wearing a gray silk scarf. It's not the 1940's and he's talking about count Basie and it's not Saturday night and he wants to hear swing music. A union plumber comes to Harlem.

Grandma wanted a white man to fix the problem with the pipes.

It's the same each time. Southern cooking is the best they ate it as a boy. Langston Hughes is a significant writer and Duke Ellington is a consummate artist.

Southern cooking killed Grandpa of heart attack and we just want to get our pipes fixed at a reasonable cost.

It's not raining and he's carrying an umbrella and it's not cold and he's wearing a gray silk scarf. A union plumber comes to Harlem.