Small towns and farms: Our ‘people estuaries’

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D.G. Martin

“That couldn’t happen if you moved every three years.”

Reynolds Price, the late novelist and Duke professor, was talking to a group at a Southern Writers Conference in Chapel Hill about memories.

Our memories are our treasures. They are who we are. Looking back, some of us see our parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, cousins, longtime friends, teachers, preachers and the places where we knew them — home, church, school, stores and fields…

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