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122 that appeared. A treasure trove to us but a nightmare to the kids who were experiencing the objects’ appearances. To me this was all exciting beyond measure. To Will and Maria it was frightening beyond measure. They weren’t interested in Jack Black, nor in his exploding toilets. However, they began to collect and keep the materials in a cardboard box after I asked them to do so. A few years later my co-author asked a writer friend of hers to do a little investigating of the Jack Black story while she visited family in the area shown on the magically appearing maps and newspapers. She didn’t learn anything, but how much can a blonde white woman expect to Jearn 1 aatoate aut c , aao4 about the life and times of a country black man even in the same county? Not easy in Mississippi nor perhaps anyplace else in the South. But the story doesn’t end there. Will was called to the army and soon sent overseas. Maria drifted into another relationship and married Richard rom 1 , wd mio wr aa L. They moved into a small house on Tulsa’s West Side and Maria assumed that her days of being “haunted” as she woat called it, were over. But she was wrong. Something followed her to her new 1 home. Jacques, as usual, had taken notes but had few comments. I was thrilled to be able to lay out the objects in neat rows on my living room floor and through them, to trace a story of Jack Black’s life and times in Mississippi a ANTI ia ee 2 aA te 2 te and Vietnam and back again. I still have the teleported objects carefully stored in a 1 closet in my house. Maria and Richard were horrified to learn that strange stuff was going to be occurring in their new house. A light that sat on the dinette table flashed off and on. They could not use their telephone, sometimes for an hour at a time. One morning the smell of cigar smoke was so strong in the Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding