The Stories Our Fathers Leave Behind: Marshall Terrill on Dust, Copper and Curveballs
What happens to our parents' stories when they're no longer here to tell them?
Marshall Terrill returns to Boomerocity for his fourth conversation with Randy Patterson, this time to discuss perhaps his most personal project yet: Dust, Copper and Curveballs: A Globe–Miami Childhood, a memoir built around the words his late father shared about his the life and memories during one of their last trips to his dad's home town of Globe-Miami.
His father's story begins in Arizona's Globe-Miami mining country, in a world of copper dust, neighborhood ballgames, bottle-cap curveballs, hard work and…
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