Troy Dobyns

Description

Written Memory

Date

June 9, 2011

Text

The awful smell of death everywhere after the flood. I was 8 or 9. Down by what was left of our trailer, I kicked an upside down baby shoe. Has haunted me for years that that might be a baby's foot stuck up in the mud.

Collection

Citation

“Troy Dobyns,” Flood of 1972, accessed April 24, 2024, https://1972flood.omeka.net/items/show/607.