New memoir by Norm Riggs
In our July 11 and 28, 2018 issues, The Charlotte News experimented with publishing two long-form installments of what eventually became a book-length memoir by Norm Riggs about how, in the summer of 1964, he and a friend, Dave Dyer, two college guys in Des Moines—unable to face another three months of typical, tedious, low-paying summer jobs—decided to take a big chance. They would hop from suburb to suburb across the country, painting house numbers on curbs and asking homeowners to donate for the service.