The Dead Man on the Corner

It is 1953. March. A good time to be a kid in Tucson, Arizona. It's the windy month and the afternoons are for kites—kite fighting—a rough, take-no-prisoners war in the sky. The six boys and a girl of a three-block area just north of Grant Road are the "Sky Pirates." When the air is still, the pirates take to their desert islands to hide treasure and fight other marauding bands in often-bloody battles for dominance. Another wind, a dark storm blows through the neighborhood leaving some peop...