Shortridge High School

“They’re afraid of competition. They don’t want a charter school cannibalizing their student base.”

Maybe the time had come to defy Kurt’s injunction against my return in his review of ‘Going All the Way,’ and instead remember his declaration that we could be writers in our hometown as well as anywhere else.

“I’m a natural ham. I like to get up and tell stories. That’s really what it’s all about.”

With hammers and nails, an immigrant family builds a dynasty. From Vonnegut Hardwares stems an award-winning bike trail, a Ben Affleck flick, and one of 20th century’s most important writers.