The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Gavin Stevens includes "Cambridge" on his list of schools - "Heidelberg or Cambridge or Jefferson High or Yoknapatawpha Consolidated" (172) - in reference to Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gavin went to college there before going to Heidelberg for graduate work.

Located on the Square perhaps near the Allnite Inn, the pool room is where the night marshal and others hang out late at night (213).

Gavin mentions Hollyknowe, a small rural town that actually exists, as an example of the kind of place in which young Mississippi women grow up.