Deborah Wiles

Joe and John Henry are friends who have many interests in common, including swimming. But because John Henry has brown skin and Joe’s is the “color of pale moths,” they cannot swim together in the town’s pool. Told by Joe and eloquently illustrated, the emotions and power of friends trying to understand an unfriendly world are timeless.

A full cast voices this production which brings to life the summer of 1964 and the changes that were taking place in Greenwood, Mississippi.