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One evening I sat in on the congregation’s annual meeting with its district superintendent, Alexander B. Joyner. It opened with testimony from Hoot Pruitt. “We’re blessed to have our pastor, because he knows how to get people in line—not in a rough way, but in a gentle spirit,” he said.
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Earl Swift (Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island)