Lonnie Grinnup's Shack|Tent in "Hand upon the Waters" (Location)

Located "in almost the exact center of the thousand and more acres his ancestors once owned" (71), Lonnie Grinnup's hut demonstrates the decay of the lineage of Louis Grenier, a wealthy planter who was one of the three founders of Yoknapatawpha County: Lonnie's home is "a conical hut with a pointed roof, built partly of mildewed canvas and odd-shaped boards and partly of oil tins hammered out flat. A rusted stovepipe projected crazily above it, there was a meager woodpile and an ax, and a bunch of cane poles leaned against it" (67-68).