Most of the local tellings — it’s not gossip — come from two places: the beauty shop and the funeral home.
When Tink moved to the rural South, he had only been to two funerals in his life. On average, we have a visitation or a funeral about once a week. He’s become a pro.
In fact, I was crunching away on a deadline when he came storming down the stairs to tell me that the mother of a church friend h…