Partial to Home: Benevolence at the water’s edge Birney Imes We had been on the road for about an hour. Ross, with our two kayaks strapped to the top of his Volkswagen, was following me down a narrow, unpopulated country road northeast of Aliceville, Alabama. Most of this country appears to have been logged or is in the process of being logged. Plastic signs warning of “logging trucks entering road” are posted along the roadway. We had just passed through a sparse scattering of houses that bills itself as Benevola, though there is little to suggest much of a community. There must be a s...