He remembered the towns. What remained was to understand how they were connected.
Identifying Allen
For a long time, I looked for a boy named Allen. It was the name my father used, and I had no reason to question it—until I could not find him.
Where the Record Begins
There is no surviving passenger record of the children who traveled to the Tennessee School for the Deaf in 1932. What remains are names—drawn from a yearbook and carefully reconstructed to begin understanding who may have been there.
The First Train Ride 