This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. From the Pequot War to the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, trees tell a living story. “You are forbidden to go to Old Hickory,” Brian Dempsey’s mother told him as a child in the Mississippi Delta. So, of course he went—though not right away. He describes Old Hickory as “an island of trees” at the end of a ditch, “lurking unto itself in a treeless expanse” on the outskirts of Cleveland, Mississippi. “When I stepped inside, the thick edge of the woods opened...
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