Country Stores Gavin Stevens Visits (Location Key)

"Smoke" describes how, on many afternoons, Gavin Stevens can be found talking with "squatting men" at "country stores" around Yoknapatawpha (17). There are a number of these stores - sometimes called 'crossroads stores' - in the fictions, and elsewhere it's clear how the front porches, or 'galleries,' of these stores are frequently gathering places for the farmers, tenant farmers and farm hands in any given part of the county. Given how much Gavin likes to talk, we can assume that he visits all of them in turn.