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The Halloween Outhouse Caper

October 17, 2013

The fathers in our farm community hated Halloween.  That’s when local teenagers would sneak out at night and topple neighborhood outhouses.  They thought it funny.  But those pranks meant we and our families had to wait, sometimes with growing urgency, for our dad’s to set the outhouses upright again. It’s not that the outhouses were … More The Halloween Outhouse Caper

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“It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .”

October 2, 2013

A VERY SPECIAL GUEST BLOG — I’m proud to present an amazing guest blog.  The author is Casey Broughton.  He’s 14.  Casey wrote this story for a high school English assignment.  The only direction the teacher gave the class was that their stories had to begin with that infamous phrase, “It was a dark and … More “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .”

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