Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part 1: Mardalwil County, Acorn, Alabama -- 1. That First Year the Business Was Wood: Caledonia/Acorn, Alabama, c. 1830s -- 2. Cretia's Gal: Caledonia Plantation, Mardalwil County, Alabama, Saturday, April 1, 1854 -- 3. Macready: Caledonia Plantation, Mardalwil County, Alabama, Saturday, April 1, 1854 -- 4. Eph: Caledonia Plantation, Sunday, April 2, 1854 -- 5. Mr. Wilcox: Spring 1928 -- 6. The Mae's: Spring 1928 -- 7. Ezekiel 28:2 -- 8. Witness: Fall 1928 -- 9. Confidential: Acorn, Alabama, Fall 1928 -- Part 2: Pearl and Son -- 10. A Pint for a Dime: Church Creek, Alabama, 1925 -- 11. Grits: Acorn, Alabama, 1928 -- 12. The Flowers That Attracted the Bees: Mardalwil County, Bantock, Alabama, 1933 -- Mardalwil County, Bantock, Alabama, 1933 -- 13. Mr. Fong's Establishment: Bantock, Alabama, c. 1933 -- 14. The Hopper Hotel: Ernestsville, Virginia, c. 1934 -- 15. All Colored All the Time: 1937 -- 16. Going to Town: Smith's Crossing, Georgia, c. 1938 -- 17. The Redhead: Ernestsville, Virginia, 1934 -- 18. Two of Your Old Friends -- 19. Mr. Amalfi: Spring through Fall 1939 -- 20. Tinhouse: Chilton, 1939 -- 21. Frocks: 1939 -- 22. Branch: 1939 -- 23. Ada: 1941 -- 24. An Official Part of History -- 25. Spain Street Zion A.M.E. -- Part 3: Kin-The Nettles -- 26. Kin: c. 1960s -- Afterword. |