The New Yorker, January 13, 1940 P. 19
Tells about Copenhagen Calhoun, the railroad cook. She lives on a riverbank watermelon farm in Black Ankle County, N.C. She has no fondness for authority and is opposed to all public officials. A mayor of Stonewall once tried to get her fired from her job. A woman who gets drunk in public, he said was a disgrace to the town. She kept her mouth shut until he came up for reelection; then she went up and down Main St. and made speeches which helped to defeat him. Tells about her marriage to Thunderbolt, and how close near it came to breaking up when she invited some of her church friends to the house for hymn singing.
