Writing City of New Orleans

摘要

On a cold Monday morning in April 1970, a 21-year-old folk singer and his wife plunked down $22 at a ticket window at Chicago Central Station for a pair of round-trip tickets to Mattoon, 111., aboard Illinois Central train No. 1. Steve and Nancy Goodman had married two months earlier and were off to visit her 90-year-old grandmother at the Illinois Masonic Home.