Wright Thompson

I just don't understand why people don't want every single person to know that history.

I don't get it.

Of course.

And by the way, like, I love nostalgia, even though I know it's dangerous.

Yeah.

I don't understand why multiple things can't be true at the same time, you know?

And like, my defense of Archie is that because of the nature of his father's suicide, that Archie isn't from anywhere, that Archie is from his own pain.

And so when he talks with such nostalgia about Drew, I don't think, I really don't, I don't think he's talking about, you know, boy, I wish I lived in Jim Crow Drew, Mississippi again.

And you go out to that barn and the thing I think about is –

I mean, you've been out in the country, like sound really carries.

And there used to be lots of houses out there.

This guy named Michael Murphy, who was an architect, he was with a group called Mass Design.

They designed the EJI Memorial in Montgomery.

But he taught a class at Georgia Tech in the architecture school.

And I was like a jurist for like their final projects because it was all about what to do with the barn.

And one person, I wish I could remember her name to give her her flowers.

She basically figured out how far screams carried and how far the sound of a gunshot carried.

And she found out where every single house was in 1955 and then drew two circles basically to indict all the people who could have heard the screaming or heard the gunshot.

And to me, I wish I'd have thought of that in the book, honestly.

But I saw that and my first thought was – I had two thoughts.