A Crown, Then a Cautionary Tale Pt. 2

A Crown, Then a Cautionary Tale Pt. 2

Part I traced the big moves—the leases and bond votes, the speeches under a July sun, the architect’s pencil sketching a piano on a bluff. Part II is the lived part of the story. This is where the blueprints turn into terrazzo underfoot and a two-story hearth throws heat on winter meetings; where buses idle at the portico, a high-school band warms up on the patio, and a waitress named Virgie learns the names of half the county and most of the le…