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The last bell of Bellerose Hollow
DatelineBellerose Hollow, Louisiana — 1888
Runtime0:58
BandLouisiana basin · 720 kHz
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Reverend Amos Pruitt rode into Bellerose Hollow in the spring of 1888 to fill a pulpit nobody wanted. He found a congregation of nine, a fieldstone mound behind the church that no one would walk across, and a cracked bell that had to be rung at dusk and again at first light. Never a service. Just the ringing.
Told in his own letters, in the order they were found — which is not the order he wrote them.
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JonahGot a box of letters tonight instead of a tape. Hundred years old, near enough. I'll read 'em as they come.
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