Sugaree Rising

"Up and down the River Road the next day, and back into the sand-lanes spreading out their long fingers across Yelesaw Neck from the settlements down to the ricefields, they talked about Bonk Jackson's news about the damming of the river and the coming of the lake, and what might come of it, and what could be done. There were many on the Neck who worked in cabin and yard and field with eyes darting back and forth between the river and the Swamp and the sky, as if they were afraid the floodw...