Last night, at the rural home of Jim Avent, some energetic and friendly young people and their mentors were gathered. It was the FFA from LaFayette County enjoying some fellowship and out door games. Jim, whose ancestors had moved here in the mid 1800s, did it up right with not one, but three bonfires, volleyball and soccer (?) going on. There were hotdogs to roast over the fires, s'mores to be made and STORIES after dark by the crackling fires. The group had requested that Rebecca Jernigan come by and do a story! She asked me to come along, and we did our "Robert Johnson at the crossroads" piece where I play some moody guitar behind the Rebecca's story. They were an attentive audience, laughing and being scared at the right places. One student mentioned afterwards that the atmosphere of the story reminder her of New Orleans, mysterious and magical. After the story the audience still had energy and went on a high speed version of hide-and-seek where 100 was loudly counted off by the bonfire by 2 students while the others went off to hide, within boundaries, then for some reason everyone made a bee line running back to the fire circle to much laughter and high spirits. 
