"Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And
being forced to take what they called help." Pain and anger
resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central
narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the
1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused
by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Western Kentucky area that
now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to
some 20,000 people, their houses, farms, townships and ancestral
history. Residents were subjected to three waves of forced
relocation to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley
in the 1950s, and Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area
in the 1960s. Renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose
and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family
experienced in this often overlooked episode in Kentucky history.
The voices of a grandmother and grandson speak to each other over
time, evoking the relentless advance of irrevocable forces that
changed the land, forever.
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