I just finished a column for the Plank Road Folklore Society's website. It's about meeting Maury Graham when he climbed off of a boxcar in downtown DeKalb, Illinois in the mid-1960s. He walked into the great little geeasy-spoon restaurant I was eating in and sat down next to me at the counter----where, after talking to him over coffee, I bought him his breakfast because I wanted the talk to go on.
There's a lot more to the column. It should get up there on the website pretty soon...