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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”
The novel and play “Hamnet” suggest that Shakespeare may have memorialized his son, who died in 1596, in the play “Hamlet.”
The Honey Field—13: Rowan
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A TS Classic: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde
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.
The Honey Field—11: Immensity
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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
In Chapter 3 of Laura Boggess’s The Honey Field, our protagonist contemplates the daunting task of telling the bees their keeper has passed.
The Honey Field—2: Flower Remained Unheeded
In this next edition of “The Honey Field,” the narrator suffers an emotional setback—and feels like the flower that “remained unheeded.”
Poets and Poems: Tina Barry and “Beautiful Raft”
Poet Tina Barry discovers a forgotten woman, and tells her story in “Beautiful Raft,” a work of fiction written as prose poems.
The Old Victorian Inn, Alderson, West Virginia
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.
The Preston County Inn, Kingwood, West Virginia
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.
Sitting in ‘Mildred’s Garden’ with Laura Boggess
“Mildred’s Garden” by Laura Boggess combines music, poetry, the beauty of West Virginia, and a refugee story into a delight of a novel.
The Beekeeper Inn, Helvetia, West Virginia
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.
Forgotten Classics: “Cane” by Jean Toomer
“Cane” by Jean Toomer is considered a modernist classic, compared favorably and critically to the works of William Faulkner.
A Novel About Hughes and Plath: “Your Story, My Story” by Connie Palmen
In the novel “Your Story, My Story,” Dutch author Connie Palmen tells an unexpected story of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.