North Carolina Boundary Lines Drawn on an Oak Desk

land records.

“They are splitting Edgecombe County,” he said.

“We spent twenty years keeping that boundary whole,” I said, pulling my reading glasses down to polish them on my sleeve.

“They took the western line and cut it straight through the middle of the township,” Don said.

His low, resonant voice sounded dry, like dust on a road. I pulled a long-archived continue reading …