Ralph E. Moore of Bluff Springs, Fla.
The places where we live, just dots on a map to outsiders, hold a far greater meaning to those who occupy the dots. They are the places we have lived and loved, learned to walk, to talk, to pray, our battlegrounds, and the burial grounds of our ancestors.
As much as these mapped dots matter to us, they are like the canvas of an artist and as each generation passes the canvas to the next, new colors and hues are added to the picture.
This picture of our area, added to by each generation; may show buildings, barns, people, pastures but nothing may tell a more stoic story than the sacred ston...