The Farmer Who Wouldn't Sign
In 1987, a development company offered Raymond Watts three times the market value for his sixty-acre tobacco farm outside Lexington, Kentucky. When he refused, things...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 8:31.
In 1987, a development company offered Raymond Watts three times the market value for his sixty-acre tobacco farm outside Lexington, Kentucky. When he refused, things got ugly fast. Someone poisoned his well. His insurance was canceled without explanation. A county inspector suddenly found code violations in a barn that had stood for forty years. Neighbors who had sold their parcels stopped speaking to him.…
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