The Marrowbone Marble Company (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
There was to be discussion of the coming dam and lake, and a vote had been ordered to oust Noah Ball from the poverty commission. Nobody had seen Noah in months. Word was he would make a run for state senator in a year’s time. The Ball cousins wanted two districts to rule. It would be a tough row to hoe. In the year since the interim elections, things had changed. The New York Times had gotten wind of Wayne County. They ran an article about local corruption and called it “The War on the War on Poverty.” Don Staples was quoted: “The politicians and the businessmen can holler communist plot all they want to. We got a different name for it. Poor Power is what we call it.” Walter Cronkite mentioned Marrowbone on his show, ran a full minute of footage showing the factory and the community center and the gym. Stretch Hayes’ silhouette was right there on national television—through the open gym window, you could see him shadowboxing. There was mention of Douglass High School in town, which was slated to become a community center of its own.
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