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            Coming Home The Back Way

An interview with Mrs. Luther Martin of "Break-A-Neck-Creek", Georgia.

Interviewer: Mrs. Martin, what happened?

MM: "Child, I guess the world had come to an end. We went off to see about my sister who is sick with the asthma and couldn't talk. We stayed with her-rubbing her chest with linaments and... her drinking root teas, you know. She got better in one day and so we started home, and Luther say- lets go the back way. That was fine with me.  We had fun over that way and used to pick wild plums and I'd get pretty field flowers to bring back. Well, just at the big oak, when we made that sharp turn? I stopped dead still. Luther said, "Lord!" I thought. (We made a wrong way, this not home) It looked like somebody get a bunch of giant kindling and made a play something... like for children to climb up on.
     I recognized part of the roof, off to one side holding up other pieces. We walk all around...looking. Here is a picture of the house, before we left-before the tornado, and this is the pile of kindling, after the tornado. Luther look at me and say..."well, let's start over. Nothing else to do but".