Doc Hines' Place (Location Key)

Although Joe Christmas never knows it, he was born in this Arkansas homestead, where his mother Milly lived - and died - with her parents, Eupheus (Doc) Hines and his wife. Light in August does not provide many details about this location, but does identify Hines as the foreman of a small sawmill nearby, which is probably the economic basis for a small town. It is presumably at that town that the traveling circus stops, which is where Milly meets the man who (supposedly) is Joe's biological father.