J.B. Fox

Head of the House

The Darkness That Lingers in the Bluegrass

He knocked at the wrong door. She answered as a head on the stairs.

In Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a traveling Bible man is asked to carry Ada Pike upstairs, to a shelf of shallow cradles. In every cradle, a head. Every face is looking at him, and every one is hungry.

Harrodsburg

Founded in 1774, Harrodsburg is remembered as the first permanent European settlement in Kentucky, in the heart of the Bluegrass.

The Bible Man

Traveling book agents and colporteurs once walked and rode the back roads of rural America selling Bibles door to door, often welcomed into homes far from any town.