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A Stranger Goes on a Journey

Coming from Louisiana and working in Germany, an anthropologist calls both places home—and so must reckon with two dark histories.

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Norman Blake is a veteran keeper of the Tennessee mountains’ musical traditions. And a young act, the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, is championing the same heritage.

In which our Culture Warrior heaves anchor and explores a new album of sea shanties, among other oddities along the passage.

Long ago, a pair of larger-than-life families—two couples with seven kids between them—rang in the new year together every year. Some bonds never break.

In which an impish, six-year-old girl finds solace in the arms of a laughing son of God.

Thoughts on reverie, restlessness, and recklessness from the poet laureate of West Virginia.

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Tammy’s about to get her associate’s degree and she’s got a chance to get a real job, with a desk and a chair and vacation days. There’s just this one thing…

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