Decades: Hutch Davie & the road to the Green Door

My father, Bunyan Davie III—later known as Hutch Davie—had a knack for sparking debate, often claiming there were only two states of being: alive or dead. He was no longer dead on August 4, 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama, a place he admired but never truly felt he belonged. Raised by brilliant parents—a Standard Oil professional father and a bridge-master mother—his precociousness was evident early on. Surviving scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, and near-death experiences, he carried lifelong h...