Darkness Falls in Sandy Level

For the easily amused among us — like me! — I present the sign at the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Sandy Level, not far from Martinsville, VA. It struck me as amusingly ominous (or ominously amusing) when I encountered it on my way to and from Greensboro.

For several years, Sandy Level was home to the entity I called "The Sandy Level Creep" (story here ), who has sadly passed on to greener pastures.
I'm sure the Darks are very fine folks, but then I have a dark sense of humor. Sandy Level has always struck me as the Virginia Piedmont's answer to H.P. Lovecraft's community of Dunwich... maybe more so than I realized. The Sandy Level Creep and friends