Old School Square is now a cultural center.

The last time Brew was there was before he moved to Atlanta. He drove to Coral Gables, from Panama City, for a job interview, checked into a motel near the University of Miami campus, and drove up to Delray Beach to see his old home town, the night before his interview.

He thought about Junior Frenger and Susan Waggoner looking for an apartment in Coral Gables in the movie Miami Blues.

In The Way We Die Now, when Hoke Moseley liberated the Haitians, in Immokalee, he gave them some money and told them to go to Delray Beach.

Of course that's where Hoke would have sent them, but Brew always thought it was a private joke between him and Willeford.

One time in an auto parts store, Brew heard a man answer the phone, "Haitian Capital."

"New York is the capital of Puerto Rico," the man said, "Miami is the capital of Cuba, and Delray Beach is the capital of Haiti."

Now there's a high school in the old post office building, across from the gym, named after Toussaint l'Ouverture.

The bridge across the intracoastal waterway at Linton Boulevard was named after Brew's father. And a Methodist church on Swinton Avenue was named after his great-grandfather.

Brew had roots in Delray Beach.

He certainly had roots in Florida.

He and Zora Neale Hurston were the preeminent two Florida writers, in Brew's opinion. Zora Neale wrote a book about voodoo in Haiti. Collected folklore in the turpentine camps of Northwest Florida, when naval stores was still an industry. Both of them trained as anthropologists. Both of them literary writers.

Zora Neale's reputation had undergone a revival, since her death.

Brew's reputation was minuscule. He had in the low-two-figures of an audience.

The Buzzard Cult, he called them, after the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, a millenarian movement that swept the Lower Mississippi Valley just before and after European contact.

The trumpet shall sound!

Asi Yaholo (Osceola), Crier of the Black Drink, invincible in battle.

Brew's first publisher, John Bennett, Vagabond Press, called him Albino Grizzly, after the Berserkers, or wearers of the bear shirt, and John Remick compared the book of Brew's John published, Screed, to Beowulf.

Bee-wolf, or bear.

Brew once saw a bee-tree, or hollow tree with a swarm of bees in it, from the boardwalk at Fackahatchee Strand, and when he and Brenda saw the movie Adaptation, where Chris Cooper and Meryl Street were wading in the water at Fackahatchee Strand, looking for orchids, Brenda said, "I've been there." She surveyed Big Cypress Swamp as a zoöarcheologist, packing out samples of animal bone and shell to identify back in the lab.

All swamps look alike. That's why you need a compass in your field pack.

Balder called a band Back Azimuth once, from how he navigated in the woods, on bivouac.

Trumpet, tenor saxophone, trombone, Sousaphone.