Title: The Burial of Anyce Shepherd
Description: In April 1938, a white deputy sheriff in the mountains of North Carolina is murdered by a black man.  Te first half of "The Burial of Anyce Shepherd" is a mystery--why did the murder occur?  The second half, set 50 years later, explores the moral and spiritual affect of the murder on Anyce, the widow of the murdered man.
Subjects: narrative poetry, ballad tradition, murder
Places: Sparta NC
Time periods: 1938, 1990