Guy Morgan operates the feed mill in Burkesville. His two sons also work there. In the fall, farmers are busy cutting tobacco so the pace at the feed mill is rather slow. An average day during this period would consist of four or five customers. The farmers come there to buy feed for their animals and to have grain ground.
To pass the time, Guy Morgan and his sons will play checkers on a board that has had the squares worn off or sit on the bags of feed and watch the traffic go by. They wave at everyone that goes by, four wave an hour Morgan had just moved into a new building; the old one used to be downtown just off the square.
The new building is a few miles out of town The new building contradicted the old one; the locals didn’t hang out there, and there wasn’t a cobweb in the place.
Morgan said the pace at the feed mill isn’t always slow.
“In the dead of winter, we’ll have 15 to 20 trucks backed up waiting to get their feed ground,” he said.
