It is only February and already Robert Taylor is facing his second seismic life event of the year.
Both are wrapped in grief and angst, tied indelibly to the land that surrounds his home in the community of Reserve, Louisiana.
It was on 11 January when Taylor’s wife of 61 years, Zenobia, was laid to rest at a cemetery a few miles away. In 2003, she was diagnosed with breast cancer – an illness Taylor has long linked to the emissions from a chemical plant a few thousand feet away. Although she went into remission, the cancer set off a chain of severe health issues from which she never fully recovered, he said.
