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May 10, 2021 - By Edward Clifford I want to tell you an unlikely story. Id find it hard to believe if it hadnt happened to me, so Ill understand if you choose to take it with a pinch of salt. I assure you, however, that every word youre about to read is true. I hope youll be able to take what you need for your own life from this tale. —from "Bele & Zozo," Volume 62, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. A few years ago I found a school binder with a story I (...

The recently completed Kentucky Derby is the most famous horse race in history. Run at Churchill Downs in Louisville since 1875, the derby has attracted huge crowds for the last three decades. The Kentucky Derby is a significant part of the cycle of Kentucky life. Well-known humorist and country philosopher Irvin S. Cobb, of Paducah, was asked to explain the derby’s magic. “If I could do that, I’d have a larynx of spun silver and the tongue of an appointed angel,” he said. A...

Grace Cemetery. PHOTO: Will Morgan Grace Church Cemetery on Broad Street in South Providence is more than a forlorn, seemingly abandoned burying ground. Rather, it is a template for a unique kind of urban green space, one that would serve as a park of memory and offer the possibility of a more whole neighborhood. If anyone thinks about this cemetery at all, it is only as that wide place in the road, with hundreds of toppled and vandalized gravestones, a sad reminder of the struggles of somewhat...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names.     An Albuquerque street blanketed by thousands of cars every year fittingly b...