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Article Excerpt
In a rainstorm on a Tuesday night, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ervin Dyer went to a funeral home. He didn't much feel like going. But the dead man's widow had invited him. She thought Dyer might write a little story. The reporter thought not. Gloomy, morose, morbid, hokey--that's what Ervin Dyer thought. "I was not in the mood to write anything," he says.
First room he came to at the funeral home, the reporter saw a young man in a coffin. "Twenty-four years old, been shot," Dyer says. "Laid out in a black suit, stiff, no viewers."
But Ervin Dyer wasn't there for the gunshot victim. He had come to see James Henry Smith, a lifelong Pittsburgh...
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