Sawmill Where Rider Works in Go Down, Moses (Location)

The sawmill where Rider works is one of several sawmills in Yoknapatawpha. During the scene set there in the morning, "the trucks are rolling" and we hear "the whine and clang of the saw," and the "grunting shouts" and "chanted phrases of song" of the Negro workmen (137). When Rider returns there after dark the narrative notes the "mute soaring of the moon-blond lumber stacks, standing in the middle of the now unimpeded shadow" and "the boiler shed all quiet and blanched in the moon"; he crosses the clearing, "entering the boiler shed and through it, crossing the junctureless trepan of time’s back-loop to the door of the tool-room, the faint glow of the lantern beyond the plank-joins, the surge and fall of a shadow between the light and the wall, the mutter of voices, the mute click and scutter of the dice" (144-45).