Charlotte lost a unique character Thursday evening when William “Chilly Willy” Major was fatally struck by a car in front of Jackalope Jacks. Major, a formerly homeless man who had struggled with addiction, was 58.
- Graham Morrison
- Chilly Willy
According to the Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Major stepped onto Seventh Street and was struck by a 65-year-old woman driving a Hyundai Sonata. Paramedics rushed Major to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead around 9:30 p.m.
Look for more on Major’s death in next week’s CL. Watch a video of him playing the guitar below.
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2012.
“When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape…In the same way, the human stuggles…with the hooks that catch him. Sometime he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. The struggles are all that the world sees, and it usually misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”