Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 16:46
Located at Seminary Hill (named for the school called the "Seminary" that Melisandre Backus and Maggie Mallison once attended, 52), this "small dingy store" is owned by old Mr. Garraway (328). It is a place for men to gather and talk while eating cheese and crackers. Gavin describes it in some detail when he depicts Garraway himself "standing there behind the worn counter which he had inherited from his father, racked with tins of meat and spools of thread and combs and needles and bottles of cooking extract and malaria tonic and female compound" (328).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 16:40
This "small dingy store" in The Town is owned by old Mr. Garraway (328) and located at Seminary Hill (named for the school that Melisandre Backus and Maggie Mallison once attended, 52). Like the other country stores in the fictions, it is a place for men to gather and talk while eating cheese and crackers.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:54
Readers learn that Jefferson has a "beauty parlor" where women in town go for hair styling and other beautification treatments when Chick Mallison sees Eula's hair: "as soon as you looked at her you could tell that's where she had been" (324). The text provides no evidence, though, of its location.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:51
Jefferson's barbershop figures in 11 different texts, but there is no mention of where the town's women get their hair done until the last two volumes of the Snopes trilogy, and Eula Snopes is the only character in the fictions who is associated with a "beauty parlor." That is what Charles Mallison calls it when he sees Eula's hair on the last day of her life in The Town and says "as soon as you looked at her you could tell that's where she had been" (324). Eula's visit to the "beauty parlor" is mentioned again in The Mansion by V.K.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:48
"The oldest extant building in town," the small Episcopal church was "built by slaves" (321). According to Chick Mallison, the "Northern tourists" who expect Jefferson's architecture to be a lot older than it is, call the church "the best, the finest too" (321). Although most of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha are Baptist or Methodist, the Episcopalians, along with the Presbyterianians, are the oldest congregations in the county, going back to the days before Jefferson was officially a town.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:42
Yoknapatawpha's upper class is mainly Episcopalian. The antebellum 'church that Sutpen rides fast to' in Absalom! is presumably Episcopalian; the church where Granny distributes the spoils of her campaign against the Yankees during the Civil War in The Unvanquished is explicitly Episcopalian - we assume those are the same church, and that it is (as Faulkner puts it on his 1936 map) in the county northwest of Jefferson. But two late fictions - "Knight's Gambit" and The Town - also refer to an Episcopalian church in Jefferson.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:34
Mrs. Ledbetter lives six miles out of the way from the route between Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson. The text doesn't say six miles in which direction, but the name of the place she lives - "Rockyford" (308) - suggests it's a place where you can cross the river, so that is where we have put it.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:22
The brick yard is a place where bricks are made. In "Dry September" it is described as abandoned, but in this novel it must be operational since it is where Grover Cleveland Winbush is the night watchman there.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-08-22 15:15
The Mississippi State Insane Asylum - referred to in the text as the "Jackson asylum" - was located in that city, the state capital, until 1935. In addition to Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury and Darl Bundren in As I Lay Dying , the narrator tells us his is where Henry Armstid is locked up for life after falling victim to Flem Snopes's buried money scheme at the Old Frenchman's bend mansion. (Jackson is mentioned again in the novel when Wall Snopes arranges to deliver a Jackson newspaper in Jefferson.)
These "people" are obliquely evoked when the narrator says that the "mounds of rotting sawdust" marking the sites of the sawmills that once turned all the trees around Frenchman's Bend into lumber are the "monuments of a people's heedless greed" (190).
