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exactly right, people who would not have generallyencountered each other in their day to day lives arein some ways building a new type of community.It’s not, um, they all live here, most of them workhere, and they are looking for ways to protect it, butthen also to share it and educate other people aboutthe resources that are here.”FOR EXAMPLE, JOHNNY WAITS, A MANSEARCHING FOR SLAVE BURIAL SITES,WOULD NOT ORDINARILY BE HANGING OUTWITH THE ABBOT OF A MONASTERY. BUTFATHER FRANCIS MICHAEL IS ALSO PARTOF THE HERITAGE COMMUNITY ANDBROUGHT WAITS HERE TO SEE A SLAVECEMETARY FOUND ON MONASTERYPROPERTY.“Wow, you have so many of ‘em. Yeah, see itextends up into this corner here.”“Wow, well, it’s a big cemetery for twenty graves.That’s a lot of people even though we see one childgrave, but that’s a lot of people.”“And again, the other good piece is that it’s on aneasement so it’s on a perpetual easement – it cannever be developed.”“…do you plan to put a marker or anything outhere in the future?”I’m open to suggestions, in other words, I don’tknow what to do because it’s inside the cloister, soit’s not some place where we want to bring people.”AND FROM THERE, THE DISCUSSIONTURNED TO DIFFERENT CHURCHES, WHEREINDIANS MIGHT HAVE LIVED, HOW BURIALSHAVE CHANGED, IN SHORT, ACONVERSATION THAT MAY LEAD TO ABETTER UNDERSTANDING OF TWOCULTURES.© 2012 GPB Media http://www.gpb.org Georgia Outdoors10