To look at him, you couldn’t tell that Mister Ham was hard up enough to try to sell his overcoat in the middle of December. But class has nothing to do with money.
The holidays are upon us, time for family, for love and pain, togetherness and loss. Let us turn to the late, great Paul Hemphill, one of our most eloquent voices, for his tender, unsentimental story, “Mister Ham’s Overcoat.”
