Uncovering Appalachia’s Hidden Heroines: Pauletta Hansel Reveals Untold Stories in Understory
Danny had been dead many years by then, but the availability of information on the internet had expanded, so I was able to find out quite a bit about Margaret through an initial, quite casual, iPhone search — enough to write a few poems which is all, so I believed, I wanted. But I kept looking even after Heartbreak Tree was off to the publisher, and found out more about her, which then led me to the next grandmother, and the next. Now I am the one who plays the party trick of finding the ways I am related to my friends! But I don’t do it nearly as well as Danny did. He is irreplaceable.
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