John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead7/5/2023 (*a railroad worker, he challenged and beat a steam drill, only to collapse & die) But the book flows from J.'s story, to others, including that of Pamela, the daughter of a John Henry memorabilia collector in West Virginia Alphonse Miggs, the stamp collector specializing in railroad-related stamps & John Henry himself. He has agreed to cover the release of a stamp commemorating John Henry in a new folkheroes collection in Talcott, West Virginia, where the legend of John Henry* was born. covers pretty much any PR junket if there's free food, drink, travel, and receipted expenditures (legitimate or otherwise) to be had. The central present-day story revolves around J., an African American junketeer journalist. John Henry Days weaves together several threads through several different periods in American history from around 1870 through to the present.
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