Some of the photographs discussed in this essay can be viewed at the Web site for the book Bible Road . Fifty years after Flannery O’Connor took a few words from a road sign encouraging the use of seatbelts and made them the title of a story she had written (“The Life You Save May Be Your Own”), the side of the road is still a place that calls forth admonit (...)
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Signs of Our Times
The Photographs of Sam Fentress
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