Excerpt: Sitting in the living room of their pre-Civil War era home, the house Ron was born in and that JoAnn has lived in for the last 51 years, JoAnn Thomas began listing names. Each name was someone she’s known in Dukeville, who has either died from or been diagnosed with some form of cancer or tumor. Looking at the ceiling, then to the ground, tapping her right hand with her left pointer finger with each name, JoAnn rattled off the names of about 15 people, where they lived, what kind of cancer they had, and whether or not they had died. It’s not the first time she has done it. In fact, Ron and JoAnn recently compiled a list of all the neighbors they knew of who had died from cancer, been diagnosed, or had a tumor, and imposed them on a map of the town. The list has 70 names, many of whom are deceased. Dukeville’s current, living population is somewhere in the vicinity of 200 to 300 people, and the community is very tight-knit, she said. “You get a little weary sometimes, thinking about it,” JoAnn said. “Things get a little heavy.” thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/20/3579981/welcome-to-dukeville/
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:00:01 +0000
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