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Record #:
14066
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In this short tale concerning a chance meeting in Pittsburgh where a doctor and an old woman discover they are both from North Carolina. Meeting on the street, they discuss their home town of Henderson, its virtues, and North Carolina in general, expressing their pride for the state and regrets for ever leaving.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 16 Issue 1, June 1948, p19
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Record #:
19025
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A new volume of stories has been added to Ron Rash's series of short stories, that detail the upheaval of lives and landscape in Appalachia.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 30 Issue 8, Feb 2013, p28, f Periodical Website
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35364
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Told from the viewpoint of a young boy, the church-goers of a town usually go and pray at the bedside of a dying person until they pass. In this particular case, however, the man who lay in the sickbed was not prayed over because people thought of him as a bad man for drinking and not attending church.
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35365
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Found in an old trunk, several miscellaneous writings were found, including this parable about flowers.
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35851
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A mute peddler the author called “the vanilla man” offered a string of pearls with the purchase of his product. Its true value, she realized, was irrevocably lost with the string of pearls broken.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 3, Apr 1980, p26-27, 55