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1. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · By Burt Kornegay

   “The Intention of the Eye” - (opens the original)

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   We were driving home one summer afternoon in 2023 when Becky spotted a box turtle crossing our driveway and called out. I thought the turtle was probably a male because, as I got out of the truck and walked up, it drew into its shell with a hiss then stared back at me with red eyes. Female box turtles don’t tend to react so warily, and their eyes are brown. Then I recognized a distinctive notch in the turtle’s shell and held him up for Becky to see, decalring “It’s Dryback!” Unlike the rest of t

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · By Burt Kornegay

   Up Moses Creek: The Pasture - (opens the original)

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   Moses Creek may be off the beaten path, but it’s no stranger to famous people. Moses himself has knocked on our door, and so have Socrates and Plato, the Apostle Paul, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton and Keats. Fellow American Robert Frost is another visitor, and I love to listen to him recite his poetry, though I’ve learned not to take him at face value. His poems often say one thing but mean something else. Or, as he once put it in a lecture called “Education by Poetry”: “People say, ‘Why don’t yo

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