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Grave Work
The holiness of nature is ever a lofty contemplation; and it is well amidst the quiet wildwood and
beneath the forest-shades, to be reminded sometimes of death and of the grave. . . .
—Nehemiah Cleaveland,
Green-wood Illustrated
, 1847
When I walk in the Piedmont woods with Solo, on a search or for pleasure, I wonder when
he tarries on a particular scent whether it's more than squirrel pee or the ancient track of a pit
bull.
As a Yankee, I sometimes paint the Southeast's history with the crude black-and-white
brushstrokes of slavery, but these walks remind me that the South's dead go back thousands
