Meadville

She uses her phone for an alarm, and she keeps it face down on the nightstand.

Lavelle's email is about 11 nights in October of 1976 when he was 11 years old and living with his folks and his little sister in Franklin County, Mississippi, a few miles outside of Meadville on the edge of the Homochitto National Forest.

His daddy, Bernice, was the saw filer at a hardwood mill, which meant he was the man who kept the big band saws sharp and tensioned, and he worked the day shift and was home every night by 6:00.

His mama was Earlene.