A road that seems to go nowhere may once have gone exactly where a community needed it to go.
This proof-of-concept entry shows how shorter place-based field writing can live beside longer essays. A finished version would connect cemetery location, family names, road history, land records, oral accounts, and changes in settlement patterns.
The map beneath the map
Cemeteries can preserve an older geography after houses, schools, stores, and farms have disappeared. The names on stones and the routes that reach them become a second map of a place: one built from kinship and memory rather than current traffic.