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Archive for September, 2007

Epaphroditus Howle

Every once in a while, sitting in the archives surrounded by the paper that the long-dead have left behind, you get to stop and smile at a character who strolls into the historical record with their colorful self preserved.
I came across Epaphroditus Howle a couple weeks ago in the South Caroliniana Manuscripts archive in the [...]

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The Road

“The woman when she saw him put her arms around him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn’t forget. [...]

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