“In the summer the great bands arrived. Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Chick Webb….They were part of the summer nights and the hot dog stands, the fetid swimming pool with chlorine, the screaming roller coaster, the old rain-splattered picnic tables, the broken iron swings. And the bands were also part of Southern drunkenness, couples drinking Coke and whiskey, vomiting, being unfaithful, lovelorn, frantic.”—Elizabeth Hardwick, recalling her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, in Sleepless Nights (1979)
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