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Recently Posted American Stories

Bogging

Grownups have finally found out that mud can be fun. On Sunday afternoons in Coon Mizell’s cornfield, anyone with a pickup truck worth its pull is pitted against slime in the local Boggin’ hole. The winner is the driver who goes the farthest before getting stuck.

Vaudeville’s Back

An ancient truck carries a couple who dream of another time. Denise and Benny Reel gathered together a small group of vaudevillians. They were not kids with more ambition than ability. They were professional performers who set aside New York City careers to live in the country. And soon, people paid to see them; to sit in a frozen town hall, heated by a single stove.

A New Standard of Caring

We returned to San Francisco a year later to see how the survivors of a terrible earthquake were doing. Betty Kelly still cannot cross a bridge without flinching.  She and her husband were on vacation in 1989,  high over San Francisco Bay, just as the Earthquake struck.  A section of the Bay Bridge dropped like a deadly trapped door.  The Kelly’s honked their horn to warn others.   But Anna Annalonghu died.  Everything Adeen Murphy owned was 4 flights up a twisted staircase. Adeen had lived through a thousand air raids in World War Two London, so she crossed police barrier and found something she had bought only a week before — $2-thousand dollars worth of Wedgewood China.

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