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Now on the shelf The Cookbook. The novel is coming.

Bitter Root, SC. Est. 1923

Field Notes

No. 08 · February

Field Note No. 08 · February

Snow Cave Letters

Three transcripts from the podcast that never made it to tape.

Three transcripts from the podcast that never made it to tape. They live here instead — porch-side asides, coffee-cup pauses, and the kind of ending you cannot edit cleanly.

This field note is filed and waiting for Teddy’s longer telling. The dates are approximate; the letters are not.

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Field Note No. 01

The Soda Fountain Bell

Hannah hung a brass bell over the soda fountain in 1924 and told the boys that any one of them who rang it without ordering a sundae owed her a nickel. The bell is still there. The nickels paid for the new roof in 1957.

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Field Note No. 02

On the School Under the Ground

No one in Bitter Root will tell a stranger about the schoolhouse. Not because they are unfriendly, but because the story takes the better part of an afternoon, and they want to make sure you have time for it. Bring a folding chair.

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