CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXJanuary of 1975 was big news. President Ford signed the fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit into law. The Wiz opened on Broadway with an all-Black cast. The North Vietnamese “liberated” Phuoc Binh Province, and the Weather Underground bombed headquarters for the State Department in Washington, DC.
Lots of news, but none of it was happening in Fort Wayne. Jesse covered boring school board meetings and teachers’ union gatherings and tried to write them into interesting stories, but it was impossible.
Maybe it’s time to relocate, he thought. He could probably land a job in Chicago or Detroit, but that would mean leaving the band and 1114 and all his friends at the paper. It didn’t feel like the time to leave. Weatherly still had a lot to teach him. But something way outsi
