Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 10/27/03: The houses in the canyon have hillsides for back yards.

Jacob Lawrence, " The Life of John Brown No. 19," (1941) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Life of John Brown No 19. Sunday, October 16, 1859, John Brown with a company of 21 men, white and black, marched on Harper's Ferry.* (1941)

October 27, 2003:

The houses in the canyon have hillsides for back yards. Fences climb vertically, squared-off at odd angles, trapezoidal. So that people can own something of "their own". Once the hillsides were wild.

We played army in the construction sites. Down in the plumbing trenches, throwing pine cones for grenades.