![]() Her words bring to life the all-day Sunday services at the Sanctified church, the "perfect days" of her girlhood, and the ghost stories told on the porch of a soft midwestern summer evening. Taylor, who started a girls' string band and a whole assortment of street vendors and playmates who made up the world of her childhoodĪs she grew up, Fairbanks saw many different sides of her community. ![]() Neal, the genteel activist who showed her the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork Mr. Its pages are filled with fascinating people: Mama and Daddy-Willie Mae and George Edwards-who taught her about love and pride an dignity Aunt Good, a tall and stately woman with a "queenly secretive attitude" brother Morris, who "took the time to teach me about the street and the people I would find there" Mrs. ![]() The Days of Rondo is Evelyn Fairbanks's affectionate memoir of this lively neighborhood. ![]() African Americans whose families had lived in Minnesota for decades and others who were just arriving from the South made up a vibrant, vital community that was in many ways independent of the white society around it. 2In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. ![]()
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