Stealth Genius

I asked him why he thought to tell me these stories. I had no idea there was some sort of …
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Eustis Gene Stephenson sat in a cheap dining hall captain’s chair as though he were sitting in a fine Barcalounger, …
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Virgil smiled. He said, “All told I’m appreciative of the time I’ve spent here. As a black man I’ve been …
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Virgil Sanders explained to me that in 1865 Franklin Pedimore was 87 years old, but looked no more than 30. …
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“‘I served with the Royal Navy during your War of 1812 and our initial defeat at Fort Bowyer in 1814,’ …
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His older brother Otis died of diphtheria in late 1868 and his father Hank shot himself after losing his crops …
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In Return for Kindness One New Year’s morning I woke up so hung over nothing was real. The effect of drinking …
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A History In the weeks and months to come I regularly hiked the Land Trust trails. Most of the time …
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I’d been dreaming of hiking with my children. They were laughing, fighting, just in front of me.  My son walked …
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