Author: thachhtv

the whole county laughed when a sixteen-year-old spent his mother’s egg money on a dead dragline—then the drought came and every farmer needed him Part…

the pencil mill dumped cedar scraps beside her property for twelve years — when they finally shut the gates, the young woman they dismissed owned…

Part 1 Mountains keep their dead differently. In flatter country, a burial is an ending with a shape everyone understands. The earth is opened, the…

Part 1 In the summer of 1893, the hollow above the upper Buffalo River did not appear on any county map under the name by…

Part 1 In October 1884, rain fell over the southern Missouri Ozarks for nearly a week without stopping. It came first as an autumn storm,…

Part 1 On the morning of November 3, 1911, a girl came down out of the timber above Millsap Forge carrying a book wrapped in…

Part 1 In the last week of October 1878, a county surveyor climbed into a nameless fold of the Missouri Ozarks carrying a lantern, a…

Part 1 In the winter light of the Great Smoky Mountains, Little Greenbrier Cove looked less like a settlement than a place the mountains had…

Part 1 There is a hollow in the Blue Ridge that disappeared from the maps in 1889. The ground did not move. No landslide buried…