This was taken at the Mick Family Reunion on Rocky Fork in about 1920 or so. Got a bunch of kinfolk here! The narrator of Burnt House spends some time looking at similar photos....
In another photo they are standing out in front of the house, and the house itself is surrounded by a throng—all the living children and grandchildren and greats and all their husbands and wives—a vast army of family. I thought, I share genes with all these dead people. These long-forgotten dead people.
Someday, I’ll be forgotten, too.
Damn.
Some of these people I knew, some of them I know by reputation--by stories!--and some of them are unknown....When I die, almost all of them will be lost forever....
More or less. I'm using an image of the old Mick house on the cover of Burnt House. Literature is immortal....
More or less. I'm using an image of the old Mick house on the cover of Burnt House. Literature is immortal....
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