Wow. My Dad's father was deacon and sometime choir leader of the East Elijay Baptist Church; Elijay is county seat of Gilmer County, a rural mountain district i

Wow. My Dad's father was deacon and sometime choir leader of the East Elijay Baptist Church; Elijay is county seat of Gilmer County, a rural mountain district in north Georgia that seems to have been home of the author of this report. My grandfather passed away suddenly when I was very small, and I never got to know him. I left Georgia for Silicon Valley after high school, and thought that I had gone for good. Yet I find the words and images deeply moving; vocal music has always been a big part of my life. I spent many hours, growing up, in conferences like these. I can taste that mid-day meal, stew pork and potato salad, soaking into the cheap paper plate.