The Front Porch (Paperback)

Paperback. Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at the San Antonio Express-News, Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio presents a mosaic of the community composed of individual profiles of San Antonians. This luminous collection, which gathers some of Daviss finest work, takes readers through San Antonios neighborhoods to trace the cultural and human legacy of a city built on the margins.Drawn by the lives of those rarely seen in headlines, Davis puts readers in places theyve never been, including at a rural country rodeo where old wranglers watch the next generation, at a reunion of Vietnam veterans paying tribute to a fallen comrade, and in the sanctuary of a Baptist church where the women wear fine church hats of all sizes and colors during Sunday worship. He discovers the vulnerability of forgotten communities and pulls back the veil on his own familys rich narratives, including a beautiful Mothers Day tribute and his Granddaddy, Theodore H. Martin, the cigar-smoking World War II veteran whose spellbinding tales in Columbus, Georgia, taught young Vince the magical sway of stories.This isnt just a book about San Antonio. Readers will come to care about people they never knew existed, whom they may have passed or caught a glimpse of on the street. And by the final page, they will understand something profound: Every community is rich with untold stories waiting for someone who cares enough to listen, stories passed from one person to another, one generation to another, one culture to another. Every community is rich with untold stories. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio takes readers through San Antonios neighborhoods to trace the cultural and human legacy of a city built on the margins. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …