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Merry Mushroom Memories
The search began with me in the dining room on hands and knees. I had forgotten how tightly mother packed the china cabinet. Read more
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Love Deeply and Never Grow Old
Aunt Gracie, in her late 90s, with her hair coiled high, away from her face all around, in the style of the ‘40s, died as quietly and as naturally as she had lived, as she stooped to pluck a tomato in her garden. Read more
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The Ghosts That Never Leave Us
Though Loving the Dead and Gone time-travels back and forth over the twentieth century, the novel begins with the accidental death of Donald Ray Spencer in 1963, killed instantly when his car is rear-ended by another driver. Read more
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Photo Essay, February 2023
Our readers share their wintertime photos. Read more
Ghost Lights
Near Marion, North Carolina, there is a gravel track that makes an unlikely claim of being a state highway. If you are brave enough to bump along to the end of the narrow ridge, you will dead end at the beginning of a ghost story. Read more
Dec 1, 2022
When Candy Rains Down
It is 1974, I am seven years old and parades are my favorite thing in the whole wide world. Read more
Dec 1, 2022
David Cohen illustration
Hansel and Gretel
I saw the Hansel and Gretel dolls in the Sears Christmas 1963 catalog. The page showed the dolls standing side by side, and explained they were imported from Germany and designed by master craftsmen. Read more
Dec 1, 2022
A conversation with a Smokies descendent
When the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created, thousands of people were forced to leave homes that fell inside the boundaries of the new park. But the six unmarried Walker sisters, who lived in Little Greenbriar Cove, refused to go. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
