WATERSHED
Copyright © 2019 Mark Barr
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Cover and Book Design: Meg Reid
Cover Photo: © Matthew Genitempo
Author Photo: Kristi McKim
Proofreaders: Kalee Lineberger
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Barr, Mark, author.
Title: Watershed / by Mark Barr.
Description: Spartanburg, SC:
Hub City Press, 2019.
Identifiers:
LCCN 2018060607
ISBN 9781938235603
Classification:
LCC PS3602.A7774345 W38 2019
DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060607
Hub City Press gratefully acknowledges support from the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina and the Amazon Literary Partnership
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For my parents, Bill and Darlene Barr
“Brothers and sisters, I want to tell you this: the greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.”
—Testimony given in a rural Tennessee church in the early 1940s
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