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Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...Mama says I was born with cotton dust in my chest. I cough once for her, once for all my aunts and uncles. Mama quit school at 16 to work...
Geography
...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us. 3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....
Sweep
...that obsesses him more than football or weather and that cancer is far to prevalent in this green valley of herbicides and chemical factories. Now Mike, the younger brother, lifts...
Work
...home, with voices carried in your head of who you leave behind. Here you live out your path with collective memory. Veneer line — I worked for three months between...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...cut the ribbon at the TN-NC line, opening the new four-lane version of US 23 North to Bristol, TN. This left a 10 mile section of steep, curving, unimproved two-lane...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...daughter's marriage by making a shopping excursion to Charleston to buy special items such as fabric for a wedding quilt. According to family oral tradition, Samuel Snoddy also made such...
Olathe newspaper
Olathe Mirror. "A Dastardly Assault." December 31, 1896. "Mr. Ross is an old citizen of Johnson county, and as the MIRROR goes to press he is lying in a critical...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...Blanton waits his verdict, where Cherry waits for trial. They tissue like smoke over the interstate, split, descending, into Fountain Heights, into Oak Hill's graves, into east-side projects where clothesline...