Hymn
66 Hymn Going to rise again rise again as stars begin to fall like bread from heaven. Going to take up my body children walk this burning earth walk it burning. 67 " We came to New Covenant the same way we left Bethel Grove — everything we owned tied up on the back of a truck and us still wondering what kind of a life we were bound for. Many a family ended up going north. Chicago. Indianapolis. Detroit. Said those were some sure places to find work at the time. But all them places were farther away from home than I ever wanted to be. And I told your grandfather so. I counted it a blessing, then, when he came in from the camp office one afternoon and said the County Relief had found him a job of work in New Covenant. And none too soon, either. Now that the dam was finished, the workers’ town was to be turned into a tourist camp, and we were to be turned out, whether we had anyplace to go or not. The first house we took in New Covenant was a little tar-shingled shack up on Beechum Hill, back of the quarry. It felt like a mighty queer thing, sitting up there hearing the street traffic, seeing the lights spread out over town, and us not knowing a soul here. It felt like living in a far country. ...
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