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• 1 media/Fork of the Road_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T15:33:25+00:00 Fork in the Road bewteen LA-1 and LA-416 7 The fork in the road between LA-1 and LA-416 marks the southern tip of False River and the beginning of Riverlake Plantation. In A Gathering, Tee Jack describes his store as "setting in the fork of a road between a bayou and a river.” This building recently housed an antiques shop but now sits empty. media/Fork of the Road.jpg plain 2021-05-04T17:00:45+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Beneath Dilapidated Wood_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:08:10+00:00 Decayed Gallery at Cherie Quarters 7 Cherie Quarters is disappearing. Although on the National Register of Historic Places, the two remaining cabins in Cherie Quarters have fallen into disrepair. media/Beneath Dilapidated Wood.jpg plain 2021-05-01T21:59:24+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Mount Zion Cemetery_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:24:38+00:00 Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery 6 Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery is the Black cemetery that holds the remains of many of the enslaved Africans and Black sharecroppers who worked on Riverlake Plantation in Oscar, LA. Gaines was laid to rest here in 2019. media/Mount Zion Cemetery.jpg plain 2021-05-27T14:06:32+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole.
• 1 media/Ernest Snook Spooner_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:20:15+00:00 Ernest "Snook" Spooner, 1919-1974 4 Ernest Gaines honored his ancestors and community by preserving their graves. media/Ernest Snook Spooner.jpg plain 2021-05-04T15:50:01+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Cherie Quarters_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:10:21+00:00 Cherie Quarters Overgrown 4 The remaining cabins that once made up Cherie Quarters are now overgrown with Louisiana foliage. This cabin would have housed two families and been surrounded by a small yard with gardens. media/Cherie Quarters.jpg plain 2021-05-01T21:58:11+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Graveyard Pecan Tree_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T20:55:20+00:00 Pecan Tree at Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery 4 In A Gathering, Grant Bello notes the cemetery trees: “Now, up ahead, I could see the pecan and oak trees in the graveyard at Marshall. You had a dozen trees spread out over the graveyard, and about that same number of headstones." media/Graveyard Pecan Tree.jpg plain 2021-05-04T16:01:26+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Marshall Plantation Big House_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:36:27+00:00 Riverlake Plantation "Big House" 4 This is the Riverlake Plantation home built in the early nineteenth century, as seen from False River Drive. Also visible in the photo is one of the Plantation's pigeonniers. When he returned to Oscar, Gaines built his own home next door. media/Marshall Plantation Big House.jpg plain 2021-05-04T16:16:03+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Encroaching Sugarcane_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:12:36+00:00 Encroaching Sugarcane 4 Gaines worried the cemetery where many of his ancestors were buried might be lost to sugarcane fields if he didn't work to preserve it. In A Gathering, the character Johnny Paul gives voice to that concern, saying, "that tractor is getting closer and closer to that graveyard, and I was scared....one day that tractor was gonna come in there and plow up them graves, getting rid of all proof that we ever was." media/Encroaching Sugarcane.jpg plain 2021-06-01T21:28:57+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Eugene Marshall Gaines_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:17:48+00:00 Eugene Marshall Gaines, 1936-1997 3 Ernest Gaines honored his ancestors and community by preserving their graves. media/Eugene Marshall Gaines.jpg plain 2021-05-04T15:56:48+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Big House_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:35:00+00:00 Riverlake Plantation "Big House" 3 Built in the early nineteenth century and expanded about 1845, enslaver Antoine Descuirs (aka deCouir) lived in this historic French Creole style "big house." media/Big House.jpg plain 2021-05-01T21:54:51+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Standing Guard_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:02:19+00:00 Ernest J. Gaines Plot at Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery 3 Gaines cared for the graveyard until the end of his life, hosting an annual clean-up just days before he passed. media/Standing Guard.jpg plain 2021-05-04T15:39:30+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/No Marks_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:05:23+00:00 "To Lie With Those Who Have No Marks" 3 In a 1994 profile on Gaines, he was quoted as saying there was a time when he wanted his epitaph to state, "He was a good man who wrote well." After starting the work to preserve Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery, he said, “I think I’ve changed that to, ‘To lie with those who have no marks.'" media/No Marks.jpg plain 2021-05-04T15:02:24+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Walter Zeno_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:05:23+00:00 Walter Zeno, 1895-1978 3 Gaines dedicated A Gathering to "Mr. Walter Zeno—aka Salute, Rider, Pete, and a few other names." media/Walter Zeno.jpg plain 2021-05-04T16:07:31+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Sugarcan on Both Sides_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:35:16+00:00 Sugarcane on Either Side 3 LA-1 (aka Wye Rd.) offers an iconic image of Louisiana sugarcane country. In A Gathering, Sully describes a similar view: “It was a good straight road for about four miles, with sugarcane fields on either side.” media/Sugarcan on Both Sides.jpg plain 2021-05-04T17:09:08+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Dirt Road between Plantations_thumb.jpg 2020-11-14T21:47:42+00:00 Dirt Road Separating Cane Fields 2 In A Gathering, Gaines describes “a dirt road that separated Morgan and Marshall Plantations.” This road provides access to the fields and to residences off of False River Dr. media/Dirt Road between Plantations.jpg plain 2021-05-04T13:56:25+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole
• 1 media/Ernest J. Gaines Gravesite_thumb.jpg 2020-11-15T01:16:26+00:00 Ernest J. Gaines Gravesite 2 Gaines died November 5, 2019 and was buried in Mount Zion Riverlake Cemetery. media/Ernest J. Gaines Gravesite.jpg plain 2021-05-04T14:51:49+00:00 10/1/2020 Lauren Barker Bedsole