Road to West of Jefferson in Light in August (Location)

Location Key: 
Display Label: 
Road to Burden Place
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Event
Authority : 
Faulkner map
X: 
1072
Y: 
864
Description: 

Though seldom traveled in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction, the road on which the Burden place sits is the main road from Jefferson to the (unnamed) town that lies "bout thirty miles" to the west (227). It is "not a gravelled road" - i.e. it is a dirt road - "though it looks to be fairly well used" (226). Joe Christmas walks through the woods alongside it when he travels back and forth between town and the Burden place. The "countryman" and his family are "coming to town in a wagon" on this road when they see the house on fire (90).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Country Road

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