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🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome properties.
Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Shadowlands 1: Horizon" and "Shadowlands 4: Breath" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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0:00.0 | My name is Jack Shell. |
0:07.2 | This is the story of two hills, really. |
0:10.6 | I grew up in rural, Matoon, Kansas. |
0:14.0 | My family's farmhouse was on top of one small hill, and across the way a little higher |
0:19.6 | were the rencos. |
0:22.0 | Between the properties was a long depression, where a creek had once been a hundred years |
0:25.8 | ago. |
0:27.0 | But it was dry and only about ten feet wide when I was a kid. |
0:31.8 | The rencos were considered bad seeds. |
0:35.0 | Their property was derelict, always about to be taken by the bank. |
0:39.5 | They survived. |
0:41.0 | Who knows how. |
0:42.6 | Buying and selling and trading things. |
0:44.9 | Government programs. |
0:47.0 | You never knew which relatives were living there. |
0:50.2 | I grew up looking at their house on the hill, only occasionally seeing someone up there. |
0:56.6 | Over the years they had more and more junk strewn around. |
1:00.0 | They didn't like for anyone to see them. |
1:02.6 | My family had no contact with them. |
1:04.5 | We didn't know anyone who really did. |
1:08.8 | One day in 1933, one of the elder rencos, I think his name was Peter, trudged up the hill |
1:17.2 | on horseback with another horse tied behind him. |
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