S2E51 - The Map on Rockhouse Road, April 1990

It was spring of 1990, the last spring before my friend Maggie forgot how to look at the sky. I was seventeen, she was sixteen, and we had a map that wasn't for anywhere on this side of the county line. Rockhouse Road ran east out of Erwin, Tennessee, past the old quarry and the defunct sawmill, dead-ending at a gate that said NO TRESPASSING in letters tall as a man. But the gate was always open. The map came from her grandmother's cedar chest, drawn on the back of a grocery list in pencil so faint it looked like...