"...sometimes they would race at night, under those weak-eyed yellow-ochre lights they have at small tracks and baseball fields, and the clay dust would start showering up in the air, where the evening dew would catch it, and all evening long you would be sitting in the stands or standing out in the infield with a fine clay-mud drizzle coming down on you, not that anybody gave a damn..."
Tom Wolfe
"The Last American Hero"
"Running Dirt" Portrait of a dirt track racer, Columbia, SC.
5 minutes, 16 mm
Produced with an NEA/SCETV grant and aired on PBS regionally. Story Link
