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! KILN PHOTO by Edward G. Gauthier The top hat twill coated reporter left a yellowed photo of our charcoal kiln its ancient process frozen by this game faced stranger with tripod camera and gunpowder flash. We seven all young in white shirts flat brimmed hats even our teeth soot dusted suspected this stranger paid for no-sweat work and way too clean some city guy yap talkin.’ Cousin Ozey put him right with "We work hard and honest and we do not know you. Once that pit gets fired there's no backin' down." Ozey had heard cameras freeze a soul to paper. I stacked the logs in square rows for circulation Jamie crawled the middle packed in the kindling we ganged the top and sealed it in and set it all to blazing. Camera man took our pictures, suspicion right there on our faces but nothing slowed this guy him packing into his covered wagon working under a heavy black blanket said he was developing. No one wanted the photo but me so I scratched it with my fingernail but found no souls probably cause this work is so damned hard our souls burned away.
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