"The Education of an Island Boy" Joel G. Hancock: No. 2 "Have you ever been to Chicago?"

Sunday, September 29, 2013

No. 2 "Have you ever been to Chicago?"

A classic story of Charlie Claude Jones

One day while at the East'ard Variety (Cab's), he noticed a man whom he sensed that he might have seen

sometime in the past. He stepped up to the man and asked, "Sir, have I ever met you before?"

The stranger responded, "I'm sorry, Sir, but I don't know that I have ever seen you before."

Charlie then continued, "Well, have you ever been to Chicago?"

"No," replied the stranger, "I have never, ever, been to Chicago."

"Well, Charlie concluded, "I ain't either. It must have been two other people!"

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Harkers Island people and stories, as told to and by one of them.

"All the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life . . . the sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.” Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer

For the last ten years or so I have been compiling a list of stories --- some sublime, and some ridiculous, and some in-between --- about the Island I grew up on. It remains my hope to arrange them into a coherent narrative that will convey some of what it was like to be a small part of a special place at a special time.