Book Report: Read about Ohio ‘briars,’or Twin Cities’ jazz scene in this week’s offerings
August 19, 2011 at 6:04 am in River Falls Journal
Years back, I had a student named Gaylon Kennedy, who hailed from southern Ohio. He regaled me with stories about folks he called “briars,” laborers who came up from Kentucky and West Virginia to work at the steel mills of his hometown, Middletown, Ohio. Continue Reading
