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Last year, I took a trip to Hale County, Alabama. My goal was to connect with Pam Dorr, the
director of HERO (Hale Empowerment
and Revitalization Organization). We
arrived one spring day just in time for lunch, and she suggested we get some
catfish at the local gas station, Mustang Oil. Soon, the four of us has
ballooned into 10 people. We ran into
the local judge, and some long term and short term locals soon joined us,
including a filmmaker from Maine, and a psychiatrist from California who has
set up a live-in farm as an alternative to an institution. Heading into the gas station, it seemed like catfish
and oil would make strange bedfellows.
But, I was quick to discover it was a good one, and that Hale County was
full of such unlikely combinations.
