The Handprints Beneath the Road — Part 2

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Handprints Beneath the Road — Part 2 Miles comes down to Florida with freight dust still on him — and finds a Russian foreman named Michael Arbuzov waiting in St. Petersburg with a plumb line, a temper for crooked work, and one law: the lines must be straight. Under the banyan tree the bricklayers become a brotherhood; along the new streets the Royal Palms rise; and the boy who fixed floors in Augusta becomes the man whose roads a whole city would walk on — roads laid to outlast him, brick by brick, breath by breath, on a code of fairness in a world that rarely dealt it. Part Two concludes the novel that opens The Stones of St. Petersburg, a new KacheliTV season of the author's own books. One of the author's first books, written as a life story: of a man and what made him, of the total unfairness that existed, and of how that unbalanced world connected people through their work — and how their moral code was based on fairness. The book closes with "Speakeasy Requiem," the author's own composition, reserved by his word for the final chapter. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:30 — Introduction 1:03 — Chapter Eleven — The Russian Foreman 8:02 — Chapter Twelve — The Lines Must Be Straight 14:05 — Chapter Thirteen — The Banyan Brotherhood 19:39 — Chapter Fourteen — Beneath the Banyan Tree 25:41 — Chapter Fifteen — The Bookkeeper's Fall 32:11 — Chapter Sixteen — Royal Palms 38:04 — Chapter Seventeen — The Hidden Bricks 44:33 — Chapter Eighteen — Royal Palms (Revisited) 51:16 — Chapter Nineteen — October Eighteenth (Epilogue) Music: instrumental windows between the chapters, from the author's own compositions: Smoke and Stride, Blue Line to Chicago, Night Train to Anywhere, The Chicago Requiem, Speakeasy Requiem. No music runs beneath the narration. Source: The Handprints Beneath the Road by Nick A. Shishkov (Nick Shishkov Press, Gulfport / Saint Petersburg, Florida). The front matter, dedication and author's note are not narrated. The Stones of St. Petersburg is an ongoing KacheliTV season of the author's own books, told in parts.