Cassandra and Cootie sat under a large tree watching a car or two occasionally fly by along Springfield Road, a two-lane country passage connecting Middle Georgia’s old Negro Log Cabin Community and State Route 22. They’d settled into lawn chairs outside of Cassandra’s home, a single-wide trailer she shared with her husband, Michael. Surrounded by rusty grilles, tires, and plastic trash cans, the pair waved me into a gravel driveway.