But once I really got to know the brothers' caregiver and great-niece, Nancy Saunders, and understood deeply what she’d gone through to protect her uncles - a process that took a couple decades - I saw the Muse brothers’ story not as a great yarn but also as a way to reflect society at large. Reporting is such fun, though - there are still days I can't believe I get paid to do it!īeth Macy That’s hard to answer because there’s almost no time in my career when I haven’t been thinking about the story that resulted in "Truevine." Like other …more That’s hard to answer because there’s almost no time in my career when I haven’t been thinking about the story that resulted in "Truevine." Like others who’d asked before me to do the story, I’m sure I was initially attracted to the great yarn that it was. Archival research only took me so far to really put meat on the bones of the story, I had to go out and really talk to people on the ground. To bring those truths to light, I had to piece together so many disparate threads, driving octogenarians and nonagenarians and even centenarians around the old neighborhoods, sifting through old property deeds and maps, and reading oral histories. The daily cruelties didn’t seem to shift so much between the end of slavery and civil rights. In "Truevine," the most astonishing things didn’t revolve around the sideshow spectacle but rather around what ordinary African-Americans faced during Jim Crow. Then teasing out the facts, unraveling one thread at a time, becomes this great search.
Then teasing out the facts, unraveling one thread at a time, becomes this gre …more Deadlines help! Seriously, a story has to move me for me to dig into it.
Beth Macy Deadlines help! Seriously, a story has to move me for me to dig into it.
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