Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Port William) by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-01-13T23:48:00+00:00

Uncle Jack forsook his present worries, and the conversation, belonging then to him and Grandpa, took up the burden of times only they had known. They spoke of horses and mules and men and days. Now I can wish that I had stayed and listened and tried to remember. Now I can wish I had foreseen then what I would want to know now, and had asked the questions I now wish I had asked. What did their elders remember of the Civil War, and of the time before that? What did they tell about slavery? After the war, how were things rearranged between the races? Was the Klan active here? What did it do? Who was in it? What was it like here before the railroad came, or all-weather roads, when the only dependable transportation to and from Port William was by the river? What did they remember of the then still-standing ancient forests? How did they make it through the depression of the 189os? The drouth of 19o8? But a boy's mind is different from an old man's by precisely a lifetime. And so the talk of that day went out into that day's air and light and the silence beyond, and the silence has kept it.

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