Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:18
"Located in the V of the fork" of the dirt lane road that leads "back toward the hills" and at the top of a rise stands the church, "white-painted and steepleless" (75). Beside it is the graveyard where Lonnie Grinnup is buried. The text does not say what the denomination of this church is, but it is certainly one of Yoknapatawpha's main rural Protestant faiths - Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:06
Jefferson is the county seat for Yoknapatawpha County. Historically, Louis Grenier and the other founding fathers of the county arrived "on horseback, through the Cumberland Gap from the Carolinas, where Jefferson was still a Chickasaw Agency post" (70).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 14:54
A mill that turns grain into flour, the grist mill is located beside the store in "Hand Upon the Waters" and is where the inquest into Lonnie Grinnup's death occurs: "before the open door of which the clean Saturday overalls and shirts and the bared heads and the sunburned necks striped with the white razor lines of Saturday neck shaves were densest and quietest" (72).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 14:48
A grist mill turns grain or corn into flour. The grist mill in "Hand Upon the Waters" is located beside the store in Frenchman's Bend, and is where the inquest into Lonnie Grinnup's death occurs: next to his body, which lies "under a quilt," there is "a table and three chairs where the coroner and two witnesses sat"; the mill door is kept "open" for the sake of the public that has gathered to watch (72).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 14:45
Located "across the long flat where the highway began to parallel the river bottom," the store is described in this story as bustling with activity as a result of the inquest into Lonnie Grinnup's death: "ordinarily it would have been deserted, but now he could already see clotted about it the topless and battered cars, the saddled horses and mules and the wagons" (72).
Mr. Compson's letter just says that Rosa Coldfield "was buried" (141) - it doesn't say where. There is a family cemetery at Sutpen's Hundred, but
given the fact that Rosa puts Judith's grave as far from Sutpen's as that graveyard allows, it seems extremely unlikely that she herself would be buried there. We assume therefore that Rosa's grave is in the town cemetery that appears in so many other Yoknapatawpha fictions.
