Junebug
Junebug Johnson has lived around Harmony most of his life. His father was a sharecropper till that went bad for him and they moved into town. There are worse places. Junebug mostly works at the sawmill rough-cutting pine boards but they shut down for harvest time and everybody comes out to pick cotton. Junebug has too much energy, always has, and sometimes it comes out his mouth and sometimes it comes out his feet. He’ll be just sitting, tapping his feet without knowing it. The bosses like him because he is a quick worker and doesn’t seem to tire and the women like him because he can dance. The music, if it’s hot, shoots even more energy into him and who can stand still when they’re playing like that? Junebug usually can get along with the migrant pickers, even gets along with the colored soldiers when they come off the base- wouldn’t make him feel any better to win a fight and it would make him feel a whole lot worse to lose one. Yeah, the outsiders are competition for the women, but when the music starts up Junebug owns that floor.
