Where the post office is the town

There is no hospital in my mother's home town. There's not a gas station, a bank, a restaurant, a hardware store or dime store, either.

There is a U.S. post office. It's across the street from Roberts Chapel Baptist Church and a mile down the road from Willis Hare Elementary School, which doubles as the polling station on Election Day.

Along with the cemetery, these things in Pendleton, N.C. — the church, the elementary school and the post office — serve as the center of community life.

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Peter Wallsten 06 Aug, 2011

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