Vysyons Journal
Notes on storytelling, heritage, celebration, and the work of preserving what matters.
When the Record and the Road Point in the Same Direction
A deed I found in my PopPop's files turned Farmville from an abstraction into an actual patch of ground. It also led me to a name I wasn't prepared for: Julia Venable, my great-great-great grandmother, enslaved on the same land I now have a claim to by blood on both sides.