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Recently Posted American Stories
Marine Minister
Sailors labor on gliding high rises. Freighters are run by fewer than two dozen people. They may stop at half a hundred ports and never go ashore. For them, Boston harbor is some place special. Wally Cedarling lives here. He is a minister who has no church. Each ship is his congregation. In the few short hours between the tides, he wanders the decks offering a touch of home.
A Bank Close to the Clouds
Hinsdale County, Colorado is up close to the clouds where sun and snow interchange and know no seasons. 621-thousand square miles, a mile and a half high. It is one of the largest, least populated counties in the country. Only 400 people live here. But this day, they are reopening a bank that has been closed for 69 years.
Trespassing on their own land
Carrie Dann lives out where clouds leave only shadows on the earth. Her people remember bone gray better than rainbows. But they have clung to that land for tens of thousands of years. Now the federal government says they are trespassing.
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