homestead

In the 1970s, when Bunker moved to Maine, he canvassed old-timers for the names of the apples growing near his Palermo homestead.

Instead, she lives in a trailer on the homestead, where she feels persecuted by the blazing sun that her tree canopy used to shield her from.

Thousands of feet below, a smattering of old homesteads spread out like playing cards on a poker table.

With formerly enslaved people striking out and settling their own homesteads, the prevailing stereotypes deployed to justify violence against Black people were forced to evolve.

The same ancestor who founded this homestead left his own family behind in Georgia; that cold resolve is Hailey’s inheritance too.