The Handprints Beneath the Road — Part 1

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 1 Millie Jackson was six years old in 1873 when the deputies took her father off the porch he had built with his own hands — and the red clay of Augusta, Georgia, never let her forget it. This is her story, and the story of the son she raised in that clay: through the kilns where brick was born of fire, through the brick yards and the freight cars, through a world that was never once fair to them. What held them — and what held everyone they worked beside — was a code as simple as the work itself: brick by brick, breath by breath, and fairness for every hand on the wall. Part One of 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. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:30 — Introduction 1:14 — Prologue — The Weight Beneath the Clay 5:23 — Chapter One — Shackles in the Mind 10:39 — Chapter Two — The Cold Winter of Augusta 15:48 — Chapter Three — Lessons of the Dirt Porch 21:02 — Chapter Four — The Whispering Church 26:02 — Chapter Five — The Boy Who Fixed the Floor 32:33 — Chapter Six — The Brick Men of Augusta 38:23 — Chapter Seven — The Child Keeper 43:11 — Chapter Eight — The Carriage and the Cross 48:49 — Chapter Nine — Freight Dreams 55:09 — Chapter Ten — The Freight Boy Music: instrumental windows between the chapters, from the author's own compositions: The Chicago Requiem, Smoke and Stride, Blue Line to Chicago, Night Train to Anywhere, Rails Through Dust. 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.