Intro: Who Is Ely Green?
Who Is Ely Green?
And why did he return to the southern mountain town he’d fled 50 years earlier?
Episode 1, The Suitcase
We discover biracial writer Ely Green through his granddaughter Patricia, asking questions about a man she never met.
Writer: Sam Worley
To come: Episode 2, Father Figures
Who was Ely Green’s father... and why didn’t his white family claim him?
Writer: Sam Worley
To come: Episode 3, When in Rome
Green flees a lynch mob to Texas, where he chauffeurs for a rich banker and meets celebrities from Ty Cobb to George Washington Carver.
Writer: Sam Worley
To come: Episode 4, The Long Arm of Tradition
As a WWI soldier in France, Ely risks his safety and freedom to defend his men from racist officers.
Writer: Karla Diggs
More Episodes to come, including lost journals, life in California, and a return to Sewanee.