In 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Penn sylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new housing development\, th e last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleton. Who the skelet on was and how it got buried there were just two of the long-held secrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dila pidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side\, sharing ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven &\; Earth Grocery Store\, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants\, helped by her husband\, Moshe\, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking f or a deaf black child\, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionaliz ed\, Chicken Hill's residents&mdash\;roused by Chona's \;kindess \ ;and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin&mdash\;banded together to keep the boy safe. \;
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