Harold Cotton, Hat Blocker: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits

[Photo: Harold C. Cotton]

Harold Cotton, Hat Blocker
Recorded in Greensboro, NC.
Premiered August 18, 1996, on Weekend Edition Sunday.

Harold Cotton speaks about his life as a shoe-shine man, hat-blocker, and owner of Bob's Hat Shop in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Reporter: David Isay / Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Corporation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Photograph by Harvey Wang.

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Update from Harold Cotton, recorded Oct 2003 (RealAudio)

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