Dotson Gerber Resurrected

Dotson Gerber ResurrectedWe saw the head of Mr. Dotson Gerber break ground at approximately nine o'clock on a bright Saturday morning in March out near our collard patch, where Poppa had started to dig a well and then filled it in. Of course, none of us knew then that the shock of red hair and part of a head sprouting from the abandoned well belonged to Mr. Dotson Gerber. who'd been missing from his farm since early last fall. We were black folk, and the fact that a white man like Mr. Dotson Ger...