The Way to Gee's Bend

The way to Gee’s Bend:

Tunnels of piney woods. Walls of kudzu. Long and low, but not quite as flat as the South Carolina lowcountry. There are dips, like a rollercoaster ride in the kudzu. There’s a vastness in the humidity. A trailer pops up. Prairie like fields emerge out of the woods. Many head of cattle grazing. Dilapidated wooden buildings, then a lovely old plantation house or well-kept church. A large metal building with a quilt of a roof- different colors of corrugated tin. Fireworks stands. Ye Shall Know the Truth missionary Baptist Church is housed in a vast metal shed like building with a steeple plopped on top. Even the light is long and low now; it’s spectacular. The sky is black with thunderstorm, torrential rain interspersed with brilliant sun. Out of miles of nowhere there is now a small wooden building with a hand painted sign:

HATS    DVDS    SHADES