If you see Damon Barnes with a beer on the steps of a boarded-up city-owned rowhouse, surrounded by other West Baltimore vacants, he’s not really there.
He’s lost in the Poppleton neighborhood of 40 years ago, sitting on the same stoop where his father would relax after work, with Al Green or the O’Jays emanating from his candy apple red ‘72 Cadillac.
“I pass right by here on my way home from work. Sometimes I pick up something to drink, and I park here and talk to my dad,” explained Barnes, holding a photo of his father, Thurston Octavius Butler, who died in 2021.
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