Episode 4: The Sacrifice: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Four
Old Gods of Appalachia
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'Te a Es Aa, So Ofte I Can Feel'
Pastor clitus garvin had just finished his prayers, such as they were, when a wail rose up from the front of the church that made his heart leap with fear. He found his wife on her knees, sobbing, her apron pressed over her face with trembling hands. And cletas saw that she knelt beside their second oldest boy, noah, who lay on what was once a clean white sheet, now stained with blood and soot. Half his blackened face melted away, the other bright pink, darkened with the coal dust that marked a day in the life of any miner. His remaining eyes stared up at the rafters, its former bright blue
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