Far from Home (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ron Powers
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Social history
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Cairo, Illinois; Kent, Connecticut and its environs
- Principal Characters: Ron Powers, Richard “Doc” Poston, Glenn Poshard, Allen E. Moss, Larry Potts, Bill Wolter, Carol Hoffman, Donald Connery, Leslie Connery, Dorothy Gawel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Politics, Race, Murder or homicide, Social issues, Violence, Riots, Corruption, Economic conditions, Diseases, Real estate
- Locales: Connecticut, Cairo, IL
Cairo (pronounced “Kayrow”) is located on a small wedge of land at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; Kentucky lies to its east, Missouri to its west. Despite Illinois’ allegiance to the Union during the Civil War, Cairo is as Deep South as many small towns in Alabama or Mississippi.
Cairo was a dangerous place from the time of its birth in 1818, when virulent diseases crept out of moist lowlands around it, lands that Charles Dickens, who passed by on a trip down the Mississippi, called “a breeding place of fever, ague, and death.” Typhoid and cholera...
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