5/10/2023 0 Comments Fannie flagg fried green tomatoes![]() I wondered what’d happened to all those people at Whistle Stop scattered to the wind over the years. I wondered, Where’s a place that’s in my heart? I wanted to go home, and Whistle Stop is a little town based on Irondale, so I thought maybe someone else would want to go back, too. Then all of the sudden, I wanted to come back home. Here's what happened: Throughout the years, people have wanted to do different things with Whistle Stop-Broadway, a TV series, and this and that, and I kept thinking, I don’t want to redo anything. Have you always known you’d return to Whistle Stop and these characters? ![]() I have to let the characters speak to me. I always get up and have to go write first thing, because I get distracted-if I see a leaf fall off the tree, I’m gone!-so I have to write before anything is distracting. ![]() The first day I got there, I thought I was losing my mind because I swore I heard a rooster, and on the back of the property, I saw that the neighbors have chickens! I took that as a good omen. ![]()
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