Thank you for reading. This is a section of my forthcoming book Heartland. For reference, it is not the very beginning of the book, I know it is imperfect, and this is me taking steps to move this project forward. Comments in the comment section are helpful and welcome. I'd love to know what this brings up for you, reactions, or questions. If you'd like to support this project further, see below. Thank you.
Beside this piece of land was a stone quarry. All day long you’d hear the machines at work mining quartz. I couldn’t see the quarry, because there was lush North Carolina forest between the house where we lived and the other side of the mountain which was the quarry.