Community stories.
Stories about neighbors, small towns and strangers who show up.
The Stonemason Who Remembered My Mother
My mother, Helen Pruitt, lived on Larkin Street in Millbrook for fifty six years. It is a small house, white with green shutters, the kind... Read more
The Mechanic Who Showed Her the Truth
My name is Arlene, and I am sixty-eight years old. For forty-one years I was married to a man named Roy who could fix anything... Read more
The Grandmother Who Paid Every Lunch Debt
I have buried a husband and I have raised a son alone through his worst teenage year and I have sat in a hospital chair... Read more
The Parade That Would Not Roll Without Her
My name is Judy Hargrove, and I am seventy four years old. I have lived in Cedar Bend, Iowa my whole life, in a town... Read more
The Trucker Who Filled My Tip Jar
I have poured coffee at the Wagon Wheel Diner on Route 9 outside Millhaven for twenty-two years, and in all that time I never once... Read more
The Scout Who Saw Him Anyway
My name is Delores Whitfield, and I am sixty eight years old. I have lived in Millard Creek, Nebraska my whole life, in the same... Read more
The Neighbors Who Secretly Mowed His Lawn
I want to tell you about the morning I sat on my own front porch in the dark, in a lawn chair I’d dragged out... Read more
The Levee Photos That Saved Our Town
I have lived on Miller Creek Road my whole life, and until three weeks ago the worst thing that had ever happened on it was... Read more
The Flag That Rallied a Street
My name is Carol Whitfield. I am sixty one years old, I have lived at 214 Chicory Lane in the Whispering Pines subdivision outside Marion,... Read more
The Secret Recipe That Wasn’t Real
Forty minutes before the potluck, I stood in my kitchen holding an empty casserole dish, a box of long grain and wild rice, and a... Read more
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