The Irrigation Ditch on Kemper Road
In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Malachi 3:10.
In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had stopped watering their fields entirely, hoarding every drop for their households. Earl had a small irrigation ditch fed by a creek on his property, and he made a decision that baffled everyone on Kemper Road — he opened the ditch to his neighbors' fields before his own.…
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