March 16, 2007
Video: A rainy day in Roanoke
Video by Duncan Adams | Produced by Seth M. Gitner
Elvis grieves and the Roanoke River roils.
A child scampers to school holding her father’s hand.
Like morning glories, umbrellas open and close. The bright-striped ones, the pink and blue and flowered ones, dispense antidotes for the glum, grey sidewalks and melancholy skies.
A man, clutching plastic grocery bags, walks home alone as Franklin Road traffic streams by and tires seem to spit.
A construction site mound requires shelter too and working men wrestle with heavy plastic, cinder blocks and pallets.
A downpour Friday in Roanoke challenges and feeds, nags and nurtures. On St. Patrick’s Day eve, the grass greens.
-- Words by Duncan Adams
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