The Gentrifiers Are in Pursuit
Rent from DeepDyve- The Gentrifiers Are in Pursuit
of Rafer Barnstable born according to any account he ever heard in Haint Holler by Hellfire Creek in “Bloody” Harbison County in 1932
now come the real estaters and their minion politicos and it is no more Haint Holler no more Hellfire Creek but Sweetwater Brook in Castle Glen yonder in “Sunny” Harbison
it is like that all over Snakeden shed its name to become Laurel Dell and Frying Pan Gap is now Crown Summit and Rafer lives in trepidation he’ll wake up tomorrow as Sir Cholmondeley ffyfe-Gordon, Bart
they are gentrifying the Bible too no more Sodom and Gomorrah but Gay Land Meadows and Happytyme Acres and Senator Fairchild plans to redevelop Hell as a theme park celebrating Redevelopment
as soon as he gets his hands on the money [End Page 145]
Fred Chappell was the featured author of our Summer 2003 issue and a contributor since 1975. He taught many of our region’s writers while at unc–Greensboro. He is the author of The Fred Chappell Reader (1987) and dozens of books including poetry, stories, novels, and literary criticism.
