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The Honey Field—18: The Honeybee’s Journey

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The Honey Field—17: The Family She’s Always Wanted

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The Honey Field—16: Twenty-Seven Ounces

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The Honey Field—15: I Can’t Lose Her

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The Honey Field—14: What Does Your Week Look Like?

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“Hamnet”: Visualizing What Inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

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The novel and play “Hamnet” suggest that Shakespeare may have memorialized his son, who died in 1596, in the play “Hamlet.”

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The Honey Field—13: Rowan

By Laura Boggess 5 Comments

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A TS Classic: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

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A new edition of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Sara Barkat, shows how the story still applies to our own time.

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The Honey Field—11: Immensity

By Laura Boggess 2 Comments

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The Honey Field—10: Anna’s Heart

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The Honey Field—9: Breaker

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The Honey Field—3: You Will Have to Tell the Bees

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In Chapter 3 of Laura Boggess’s The Honey Field, our protagonist contemplates the daunting task of telling the bees their keeper has passed.

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The Honey Field—2: Flower Remained Unheeded

By Laura Boggess 4 Comments

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In this next edition of “The Honey Field,” the narrator suffers an emotional setback—and feels like the flower that “remained unheeded.”

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Poets and Poems: Tina Barry and “Beautiful Raft”

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Poet Tina Barry discovers a forgotten woman, and tells her story in “Beautiful Raft,” a work of fiction written as prose poems.

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The Old Victorian Inn, Alderson, West Virginia

By Laura Boggess 8 Comments

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Mildred’s Garden characters Mildred Ruffner and Cindy Newton wind up their bed and breakfast tour at Old Vic, the Old Victorian Inn, in Alderson, WV.

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The Preston County Inn, Kingwood, West Virginia

By Laura Boggess 3 Comments

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Fictional characters Mildred and Cindy (from the novel Mildred’s Garden) continue their bed and breakfast tour, visiting the lovely Preston County Inn, in Kingwood, West Virginia.

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Sitting in ‘Mildred’s Garden’ with Laura Boggess

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

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“Mildred’s Garden” by Laura Boggess combines music, poetry, the beauty of West Virginia, and a refugee story into a delight of a novel.

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The Beekeeper Inn, Helvetia, West Virginia

By Laura Boggess 2 Comments

Bare trees with purple mountains

Fictional characters Mildred and Cindy (from the novel Mildred’s Garden) continue their bed and breakfast tour, visiting the charming Beekeeper Inn, in the Swiss-American community of Helvetia, West Virginia.

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Forgotten Classics: “Cane” by Jean Toomer

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“Cane” by Jean Toomer is considered a modernist classic, compared favorably and critically to the works of William Faulkner.

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A Novel About Hughes and Plath: “Your Story, My Story” by Connie Palmen

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In the novel “Your Story, My Story,” Dutch author Connie Palmen tells an unexpected story of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

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