Wendell Berry's Epilogue

I’ve never been to Port William, Kentucky. It is, after all, fictional. And yet, I feel like I know its streets and their one-time inhabitants so well that I may recognize them, if I were to visit. Over there used to stand Jayber Crow’s barbershop. And that’s the house where a wounded man once rushed in and bled all over the floor in Anno Domini 1888, as five-year-old Mat Feltner watched—yes, that same Mat Feltner who would grow up to become the friend and neighbor of Marce Catlett, and then both of them would in the course of time become the grandparents of Andy Catlett, although long before that Mat would also be the father of Virgil Feltner, who would marry the Hannah who would eventually become Hannah Coulter, the wife of Nathan Coulter, but first for just a short while she was Hannah Feltner, before her husband of too short a time was killed somewhere in the Pacific in WWII and his body never recovered.