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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Snow Blind
… much. Clayton Appleby attached a sturdy snowplow to his sturdiest tractor, and he was usually able to clear the way … and grandmother, and the sight of her red hat and dark head coming across the snow fields was as common as seeing a … of the three and probably the most like her mother. It was also the year Jamie saved up his money and gave his father a …
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Three Cups of Tea
… on Sunday, titled “ Teacher, Can We Leave Now? No .” His commentary touches on many of the most difficult questions … on a mission to climb K2, in memory of a sister who had died recently, after a lifelong struggle with epilepsy.  … his school-building efforts can be found at threecupsoftea.com . And in the meantime, we must come back to Friedman’s …
Mints
… “It’s not cold enough,” she’d say. Or, “Willie can’t come over tonight.” Willie was the woman who, for the space … the marble slab was heavy, seemed to weigh a ton, it was also fragile, another oxymoron that daunted me. I was told … who they are, we tried, for a few years after our mother died, to make the mints ourselves. In some ways, we were …
The Tarheel Spellbinder
… editor of the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press , in 1926 professed kindheartedness to vindicate his enthusiasm for … the stand and examined. They are witnesses that will never die, lie, or forget. They are the old Code of Virginia laws, … and cruder racial term). But Tailgunner Joe, as the author points out, was a loner, whereas Landsman Jesse travels with …
Staige Blackford (1931-2003)
… Krutch, Virginius Dabney, George F. Kennan, Henry Steele Commasger, Robert Graves, and on and on. If the VQR were a … lineup, year after year, “murderers’ row.” And, as Burnham points out in his introduction, this was the tip of the … Cavalier Daily , was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied history at Queen’s College, Oxford. He served in the …
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From the VQR Vault: At Home
… doesn’t take us. At the last minute the driver of the car coming toward us fights off sleep and stays in his lane. He … walls had a fortress-like thickness or that we were accommodated with pets and bicycles and a Ping-Pong table on … It was the orderly life of the house, the reassuring points of reference for me in the people who worked there: …
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