This three-part installment follows Donna as she and the surrounding community try to solve what has killed her calf. Donna and her wife farmed in Folles, France, with their two...
This three-part installment follows Donna as she and the surrounding...
It’s more than a little astonishing to look at a...
My Uncle’s Farm I recollect particulars by the dozen, But...
Paul: Looks like some kids have messed up the book...
The bustle of aunts, uncles, and cousins crammed inside Mamaw’s tiny wooden house scraped against David’s sixteen-year-old sensibilities....
Paul: Looks like some kids have messed up the book box again. Any ideas who? Michelle: @Trish Jones...
Neil knew he should be the one to start the neighbour’s combining this year. At seventy-nine, his father’s...
It’s more than a little astonishing to look at a fresh new calendar in a fresh new year...
In 1916, when my great grandfather died at the age of eighty-two in Gallatin, Missouri, he left each...
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Coals The abandoned farm is a black pool aaaaaaain the memory of the forest beyond. The road goes...
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Circa 1900 Waldo sharpened the blades of his turn-of-the-last-century sled and slid Downhill at age eighty-four. His wife...
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