The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at the San Antonio Express-News, Vincent T.Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives.The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio presents a mosaic of the community composed of individual profiles of San Antonians.This luminous collection, which gathers some of Davis’s finest work, takes readers through San Antonio’s neighborhoods to trace the cultural and human legacy of a city built on the margins. Drawn by the lives of those rarely seen in headlines, Davis puts readers in places they’ve never been, including at a rural country rodeo where old wranglers watch the next generation, at a reunion of Vietnam veterans paying tribute to a fallen comrade, and in the sanctuary of a Baptist church where the women wear fine church hats of all sizes and colors during Sunday worship.He discovers the vulnerability of forgotten communities and pulls back the veil on his own family’s rich narratives, including a bea