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By Way of the Forked Stick

By Way of the Forked Stick Billy C. Clark Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 1981, pp. 53-63 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0016 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/439149/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:08 GMT from JHU Libraries By Way of the Forked Stick by Billy C. Clark The church stood at the mouth of The church had been built with slab Twinoak Hollow and was less than three oak boards and over the years time had mile from where we had moved that year peeled the bark from the slabs and only on Birdsong Creek. A single light bulb, the sapwood remained. Soft and grey- white, ends buckled by the sun until when not doused by weather or some nails popped out. The winds from the boy on a dare or bet, burned each night above the front door and was known mountain had long ago found the buck- led boards and forever whirled under along the mountain as the "Sinners them playing a mournful song that was Light". A beam to guide the regulars enough to scare. Worms had pocked the along the narrow path that followed the the boards and of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

By Way of the Forked Stick

Clark, Billy C. -- (Billy Curtis)
Appalachian Review , Volume 9 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Billy C. Clark Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 1981, pp. 53-63 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0016 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/439149/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:08 GMT from JHU Libraries By Way of the Forked Stick by Billy C. Clark The church stood at the mouth of The church had been built with slab Twinoak Hollow and was less than three oak boards and over the years time had mile from where we had moved that year peeled the bark from the slabs and only on Birdsong Creek. A single light bulb, the sapwood remained. Soft and grey- white, ends buckled by the sun until when not doused by weather or some nails popped out. The winds from the boy on a dare or bet, burned each night above the front door and was known mountain had long ago found the buck- led boards and forever whirled under along the mountain as the "Sinners them playing a mournful song that was Light". A beam to guide the regulars enough to scare. Worms had pocked the along the narrow path that followed the the boards and of the

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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