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Currier & Ives, My Grandma, and Me: How a blue-and-white plate became a doorway back to Pigeon Creek
One of the most meaningful things in my home isn’t valuable, rare, or particularly impressive. It’s a Currier & Ives plate hanging on my wall. Ironically, it isn’t even my grandmother’s plate. I don’t know what happened to her dishes—the… Continue reading
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Why Fried Green Tomatoes Still Feels Like Home
I first watched Fried Green Tomatoes back when renting a movie meant climbing into my little black Ford Probe (complete with pop-up headlights) and driving to the local video store. Except we didn’t have a Blockbuster on Pigeon Creek in Mingo… Continue reading
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