IV: Under the paved alleys, grass and gardens..P's themes live

[Mark Kohut]

Nashville, Tn. is a city famous, to those who know, for its alleys. Read, if ever interested, Peter Taylor, who uses them magnificently in his fiction as the symbolically real border where different classes and races often interacted (hidden from 'public' streets). I remember one story where
well-off white boys picked up 'bad' girls and sped off for an adventure that ended badly, in which the secrecy of the whole thing stunned almost as much as the accident when revealed.

Anyway, many alleys are paved and exist behind/between streets in what are good suburbs now. 

But many are unpaved and exist in the same neighborhoods.....grass was  planted decades ago and is cut and maintained. And many, many residents have grown small gardens, built small gardens, created free common spaces with benches. tables, staturary, etc.....

Always that sliver.........grass out of the concrete, so to speak.