At the Rogers Road Community Center, the Sheriff’s Office was setting up its tent, unwinding some electrical equipment, and putting out a popcorn machine in the concrete drive in front. The Center sits square in the midst of three or four small connected roads of brick ranches, singlewides, and, along the farthest street, a row of newer cottages. Together they have been known, for who knows how many decades, as the Rogers Road Neighborhood. Around them, here and there a forgotten animal shed lingers under overgrown trees, a reminder of the neighborhood’s roots. It’s a close-knit community of people who care for one another. That’s where the Rogers Road Community Center comes in, the place where care is central to everybody, and that’s where Rosie Caldwell, who directs it, is central to it all.
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