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Part 1 When Elias McKenna was lowered into the ground in the autumn of 1884, the whole of Milbrook Hollow seemed to gather around the…

Part 1 By the time the first frost silvered the fence rails in Milbrook Hollow, people had already begun speaking of Delilah McKenna with the…

Part 1 My grandfather was the kind of man people called simple when what they really meant was disciplined. He worked for the same newspaper…

Part 1 By nine in the morning, Auburn Avenue was already loud with purpose. Streetcars rattled nearby. Shoe leather struck the sidewalks in a quick,…

Part 1 In the deep winter of 1840, under the long blue shadow of Iron Mountain in Carter County, Tennessee, a boy named Sam Birchfield…

It was just a portrait of a plantation owner and her slave. until experts noticed a forbidden secret   The afternoon light filtered through the…

Part 1 In the winter of 1824, when the ridges of East Tennessee stood blue and hard against the sky and smoke from cabin chimneys…

1902 Family Photo Recovered — and Researchers Notice a Hidden Shape Beneath the Mother’s Glove   The afternoon light filtered through the tall windows of…

Part 1 The box arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in late September, carried through the service entrance of the New Orleans Historical Collection by two…