With the cherrywood man remaining where he was apparently protecting his stove they moved side by side, leaning together, across the kitchen, through a sparsely furnished, extremely clean living room, and out into thecorridor.
For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.