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The Story Place

October 18, 2009

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The wind piles dry leaves against a fencepost.  Branches cracked away from old oaks and beeches litter the ground.  Deer trails disappear into the woods.  Wild turkeys come here for the beechnuts and acorns.  Coyotes come for the wild turkeys.  I’ve come for the stories.  I spent a cold gray afternoon last week at Bayview Cemetery, listening. […]

Letter from Norton: GAR emerges from mist

September 9, 2009

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Norton Bretz saw the Mystery flag post and began digging through his copious files of Eastport and Pearl family history.  He writes: One of the photos from the Pearl collection is of the members of the Eastport GAR post taken, I think in front of the Grange Hall, now Dennis Inch’s house at the head […]