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

Bitter Root, SC. Est. 1923

Field Notes

No. 07 · Midwinter

Field Note No. 07 · Midwinter

Soap, Lye, and the Whitlock Recipe

Pulled from a 1939 ledger, with annotations from Mae.

Pulled from a 1939 ledger, with annotations from Mae. The Whitlock soap recipe is careful about lye, patient about curing, and stubborn about substitutions.

This field note is filed and waiting for Teddy’s longer telling. The dates are approximate; the ledger is 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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